• Respiratory Therapist

    Beth Israel Lahey Health (Boston, MA)


    **Job Type:** Regular

    **Time Type:** Full time

    **Work Shift:** Rotating (United States of America)

    **FLSA Status:** Non-Exempt

     

    When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

     

    Provides respiratory therapy and other appropriate clinical interventions to assist with orthopedic and non-orthopedic patient’s needs.

    Job Description:

    PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

    1. Patient assessment and evaluation inpatient/outpatient

    2. Home Care services and overnight oximetry

    3. Bronchoscopy set-up and assist

    4. Continuous Positive airway Pressure set-up

    5. Positive expiratory Pressure Therapy

    6. Arterial Blood Gas Collection

    7. Ventilator set-up & Management

    8. Bedside Pulmonary Function Testing

    9. Noninvasive modality ventilation

    10. LTV series Ventilator

    • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

    • Intubation assist

    • Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and STOPBANG

    • Oxygen Delivery devices

    • Portable Oxygen E Integrated Valve Center

    • Sputum specimen collection with Hypertonic Saline

    • Sputum Specimen via Mechanical Ventilator

    • Vibratory Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy Device

    • Familiar with Bulk Gas Systems

    • Intubation assist and mechanical ventilation

    • Hand Held Nebulizer

    EDUCATION

    Required

    High School Graduate or Equivalent

     

    Associate’s Degree *Science

     

    Preferred

     

    Bachelor’s Degree *Science

    LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION

    Required

    Registered Respiratory Therapist

     

    Advanced Cardiac Life Support

    (ACLS)

    Basic Life support (BLS)

    REQUIRED WORK EXPERIENCE

    5–8 years

    REQUIRED SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

    0-1 years

     

    As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

     

    More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

     

    Equal Opportunity** **Employer/Veterans/Disabled