Respiratory Therapist

Requisition ID:** 2024-385765 **Employment Type:** Full Time **Department:** Respiratory Therapy **Hours/Pay Period:** 72 **Shift:** Night **Weekly Schedule:** 6:30 pm - 7:00 am, rotating weekends **Remote:** No **Category:** Therapy, Allied Health

**Responsibilities**

**** Eligible for up to $15,000 Sign-On Bonus and $10,000 Education Assistance! ****

Our Respiratory Therapists are highly trained when it comes to performing specialized respiratory care including ventilator management, nebulizer treatment, chest PT, drawing arterial blood gases, oxygen therapies, external ventilation support and some pulmonary function assessments.

If youre passionate about respiratory care, its time to join our established team as a Registered Respiratory Therapist!

**Applying Your Knowledge and Talents:**

+ Assess and evaluate of the appropriateness and effectiveness of therapy based on patients age, cognitive and physical abilities, and/or developmental needs

+ Make recommendations for changes in specific modes of therapy

+ Educates patients and arranges home respiratory care services and patient therapy follow-up assessments using language and materials appropriate for age, cognitive and physical abilities, and/or developmental needs

+ Assumes responsibility for personal and professional growth through participation in department meetings, in-service programs and continuing education programs

+ Maintains established department policies, procedures and objectives, concerning quality assurance, safety, environmental conditions and infection control

**Qualifications**

**Requirements:**

+ Associates Degree in Respiratory Therapy from an accredited Respiratory program

+ Certified CRT by NBRC and obtain RRT within 1 year upon hire

+ Active license in the state of Nebraska and/or Iowa as a Respiratory Care Practitioner

+ BLS or BLS instructor certification through AHA required

+ ACLS certification within 3 months of hire, PALS within 6 months, and NRP within 9 months

**_Join us at Catholic Health Initiatives, and become a part of our faith-based health system._**

**Overview**

**Your time at work should be fulfilling.** Rewarding. Inspiring. Thats what youll find when you join one of our non-profit CHI facilities across the nation. Youll find challenging, rewarding work every day alongside people who have as much compassion as you. Join us and together well create healthier, stronger communities.

CHI Health Immanuel located in North Omaha just off of I-680 on 72nd Street offers a full-service hospital cancer center rehabilitation center specialty spine hospital and more. For well over a century our commitment to serve our community inspires our staff to provide the highest quality of care to all who we have the privilege to serve.