Registered Respiratory Therapist with 35 years experience specializing in Adult ICU and Neonatal ICU.
Ten years supervisory roles and 4 years lead therapist role.
Seeking full-time nightshift staff position
Facilitate a positive work environment. Assign and monitor work in all hospital areas. I am responsible for my own full assignment. Clinical resource for both adult and NICU clinical care areas. Attend all Rapid Responses and Code Blues. Perform ventilator transports to CT, MRI, and special procedures. Assist with staff competencies, annual evaluations, and chart audits. Train and orient staff. Handle customer service complaints. Ventilator management. Perform infant and adult EKGs. Attend all high-risk, cesarean, and premature deliveries.
Staff Therapist from 2002 to 2011. Provide general floor care therapies, such as aerosol therapy, chest physiotherapy, noninvasive ventilation, metered-dose inhaler therapy, and oxygen therapy. Administer adult and neonatal critical care to patients by ventilator management, blood gas analysis and interpretation, transports, bronchoscopies, airway management, nitric oxide therapy, and attend high-risk deliveries.
Lead Therapist from 2011 to 2015. Provide daily assignments for adult and neonatal care areas. I am responsible for my own assignment. Provide input to the clinical supervisor regarding staff performance. Perform the duties and responsibilities of the clinical supervisor in the supervisor's absence. Respond to all code blue and rapid response calls. Provide clinical expertise and backup support to staff as needed.
Night shift supervisor from 2011 to 2015. Assign and monitor work; manage resources to maintain efficient use of additional staff to meet workload requirements. Generate and analyze productivity reporting to justify staffing adjustments. Train the staff. Act as a clinical resource, and assist staff in setting and achieving professional goals. Handle customer service complaints. Maintain rapport with physicians and hospital employees. Contact physicians when test results or the patient's condition warrants a change.
Regularly scheduled respiratory therapist. Provide general floor care therapies, such as aerosol therapy, chest physiotherapy, non-invasive ventilation, metered-dose inhaler therapy, and oxygen therapy. Administer adult and neonatal critical care to patients by ventilator management, blood gas analysis and interpretation, transports, airway management, nitric oxide therapy, and attend high-risk deliveries.
Regularly scheduled respiratory therapist. Provide general floor care therapies, such as aerosol therapy, chest physiotherapy, non-invasive ventilation, metered-dose inhaler therapy, and oxygen therapy. Administer adult and neonatal critical care to patients by ventilator management, blood gas analysis and interpretation, transports, airway management, and attending high-risk deliveries.
Working in a Level 2 NICU independently. Ventilator management via Sechrist and Dräger Babylog ventilators. Attend all high-risk deliveries, including but not limited to cesarean sections. Draw ABGs and other lab work via UAC, UVC, PAL, and sticks. ABG interpretation. Perform infant and adult EKGs. Deliver all oxygen modalities per protocol. Aerosolized medication delivery. Perform infant chest physiotherapy. Infant intubation.
Mechanical ventilation in the MICU, SICU, with Servo and Bear 2 ventilators. Draw and analyze ABG's chest physiotherapy. Aerosolized medication delivery. ED coverage.
Mechanical ventilation in the MICU, Post Cardiac ICU, NICU, and Neuro ICU using 7200's, Bear 2, and Sechrist ventilators. Draw ABGs, including arterial lines. Aerosolized medications, chest physiotherapy, oxygen modalities, and tracheal care. ED coverage: Attend all codes.
Experience with the following medical devices: Hamilton G5, C2, C3, V60, VN500, Drager Babylog, HFOV, and BCPAP
Patient evaluations and other procedures related to the management of patient airway, mechanical ventilation, and patient assessment with protocol treatment Starting and managing nitric oxide
BLS, ACLS, NRP