69 Respiratory Therapist Jobs in Chicago, IL
Rush University Medical Center is Hiring a Respiratory Therapist Near Chicago, IL
Department: Respiratory Therapy
Shift: 3rd
Specialty: Respiratory Therapy
Job Number: 2022-1931
Date Posted: 06/02/2022
Position Type: Rehabilitation Therapies
Job Qualifications Registered Respiratory Therapist 1
Rush University Medical Center is one of the country's leading medical centers pushing the boundaries of healthcare services with innovative, compassionate, and accountable team members. Are you ready to challenge and grow your skills, contribute to providing top quality patient care, and enhance your career? Rush is a diverse and inclusive culture, and offers a competitive salary, and a valuable compensation package including health, dental and vision benefits, retirement, health savings accounts, and tuition assistance to invest in your future.
Provides simple, intermediate, and complex therapeutic and diagnostic procedures on the general care floors and special care units. Improves and maintains patient cardiopulmonary status through the application and administration of various medications, gases, devices, and procedures. Specializes in either adult or pediatric/neonatal specialty care and functions independently in either or both areas. Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.
Position Responsibilities: .
Administers, monitors, and weans mechanical ventilation; makes ventilator recommendations based on clinical and technical assessment, and laboratory values; manages airways
Transports patients within RUMC
Administers bronchial hygiene and treatment procedures including aerosol therapies, chest physical therapy, and therapeutic gas administration; analyzes gases where applicable; procures and delivers gases using central piping systems and gas cylinders
Assesses patients clinically before and after the administration or application of any medication, procedure or device; recommends appropriate therapy including initiation, escalation and discontinuation.
Applies CPAP and BiPAP and makes recommendations based on patient compliance, response, and laboratory values
Documents work timely, completely, and accurately, including documentation in the patient medical record, documentation in the department records, and patient billing
Assesses patient oxygenation, ventilation, and hemodynamic status through clinical observation, patient assessment, physiologic monitoring including oximetry, capnography, ventilator waveform analysis, and cardiac output, ECG, and laboratory values; provides respiratory care interventions within the scope of the Rapid Response Team, performs CPR
Performs bedside spirometry including spontaneous breathing parameters, PEFR, and other limited pulmonary function; identifies normal values for patients
Provides patient/family education
Performs arterial blood gas puncture (Adults) Performs bronchoscopy assist (Adults)
Provide clinical precepting of respiratory care students on rotation
Demonstrate initiative in optimizing patient care by participating in physician rounds and documenting assessment findings and therapy changes
Engagement in the pursuit of excellence; i.e. committee participation, CQI and QA initiatives, abstracts, research, Daily Management System (DMS) projects, or other activities to improve the clinical and work environments
Other duties as assigned
Transports between RUMC and other hospitals as a member of the neonatal transport team (Neo/Peds)
Attends high risk deliveries and provides appropriate respiratory support (Neo/Peds)
Demonstrate professionalism by belonging to the AARC/ISRC and/or pursuing education to advance one¡¦s skills
Position Qualifications Include Registered Respiratory Therapist
Illinois Respiratory Care Practitioner license
All RTs must pass departmental competencies
BLS Healthcare Provider (CPR) certification prior to start date
ACLS (Adult) prior to start date PALS (Neo/Peds) prior to start date
NRP prior to start date (Neo/Peds)
Company Highlights Ranked among the top academic medical centers in the country, Rush University Medical Center is an outstanding place to enhance your career. Everything we do centers on one goal: improving patient care.
Rush offers a competitive salary, and valuable healthy living benefits including: health, dental and vision to help you maintain and improve your health. Rush also offers several ways to invest in your future.
Rush University Medical Center was ranked among the top 20 best hospitals to work at in 2019 by Indeed.
All three hospitals in the Rush University System for Health have been designated a "Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality" in the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI).
Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Job Summary
Full Time
$81k-99k (estimate)
05/07/2024
05/20/2024
rush.edu
CHICAGO, IL
7,500 - 15,000
1981
ANTHONY IVANKOVICH
$10M - $50M
Hospital
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About Rush University Medical Center
The mission of the Graduate College of Rush University is to promote and assure excellence in research education and mentoring programs responsible for training outstanding and diverse candidates in the basic and clinical sciences. Strong networks. Rush University has a network of more than 16,000 alumni throughout the world. They work in academic and corporate settings, successfully compete for funding, train the next generation of researchers and educators, and make discoveries that enhance human health. We are building a strong community with robust student-alumni relations, which will enab...le current students to access Rushs alumni association programming to advance their career and professional development while allowing alumni to tap into our stream of newly minted graduates poised to accelerate progress. Customized and personal. The Graduate College offers doctoral and masters programs that allow you to choose the track and coursework that complements your research interests. Small class sizes give you a greater opportunity to ask questions, participate in discussions, and provide curricular flexibility based on the needs and desires of each class. You will really get to know the faculty and be exposed to their research while learning about their experiences and networks in clinical and basic biomedical research settings. Outcomes. The success of the Graduate Colleges approach to the training of its students can be measured by alumni outcomes. More than 60 percent of Graduate Colleges doctoral alumni remain in research or research-related careers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Rush University graduates lead Illinois universities in post-graduation earnings. Further, more than 90 percent of the Graduate Colleges masters graduates have entered professional school, doctoral programs or found employment in a research career within three months of graduation.
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