Position Summary/Essential Duties:
The therapist is learning and incorporating the mission statement and standards of behavior of his/her hospital or care facility. This therapist performs basic competencies within orientation and provides satisfactory respiratory therapy with minimum supervision. Essential duties include:
* Mechanical ventilation
* Medicated aerosol delivery
* Airway clearance therapy
* Patient monitoring
* Oxygen and humidity therapy
* Special procedures (CPR, specialty gases, bronchoscopy, transport, etc.)