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Chandler Regional Medical Center is a 429 bed non-profit facility providing quality health care to patients and communities in and around Chandler, Arizona. We are part of CommonSpirit Health which operates 139 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents.

If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us. 

For the health of our community ... we are proud to announce that we are a tobacco-free campus

Registered Respiratory Therapist Lead performs all ranges of respiratory care including cardiac and medical critical care advanced modes of ventilator care as well as non-invasive ventilation on adults pediatrics and neonates emergency respiratory care blood gas analysis EKGs. 

• Specialty experience required in at least two areas such as charge therapist stress testing pulmonary function testing arterial line insertion & maintenance transcutaneous monitoring or neonatal intensive care
• Maintains and oversees the functioning of the blood gas lab and regulatory requirement by CAP JCAHO and state agencies.
• Performs full range of basic respiratory care for all patient populations
• Performs and documents a complete patient assessment including (but not limited to) vital signs, breath sounds, cough, and respiratory pattern with each ventilator system check and with each treatment.
• Checks all equipment and respiratory modalities (including invasive and non-invasive), maintains alarms and documents accurately and completely.
• Performs ABGs utilizing 2 patient identifiers, properly handles blood specimens, reports critical values, and maintains blood gas lab logs (where applicable).
• Correctly charges, labels, scans and discards medications (including patient owned medications).
• Serve as a team lead to other respiratory therapists

Dignity Health now offers an Education Benefit program for benefit-eligible employees after 180 days. This program provides debt relief and student loan assistance to help you achieve your goals. Full-time employees can receive up to $18,000 over five years, while part-time employees can receive up to $9,000.

Minimum:

Strong Critical care experience in CVICU ICU and Nursery

Minimum of (3) years experience within all facets of acute and respiratory care including arterial line inserion/maintenance

Graduate of an AMA approved school for Respiratory Therapy

Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)

AZ State RCP License

Current American Heart Association BLS ACLS and NRP required

Basic computer knowledge. Able to communicate clearly and tactfully

Preferred:

5 recent years of CAP experience strongly preferred

Preferred knowledge of arterial blood gas testing pulmonary function EKGs and NICU.