Travel Respiratory Therapist - $2,018 per week

Company: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
Location: Albany
Posted on: February 13, 2025

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• BLS
• ACLS
• PALS
• Georgia RT license
  • Job Details
  • Large Hospital in Southwestern GA is in need of an RRT for a 13 week contract.
  • RRT will work in ICU/ER settings.
    • Job Requirements
    • Must have BLS, ACLS, PALS, and Georgia RT license.
    • Critical Care experience required.
    • Minimum of 2 years of experience and 1 travel contract.
      • Schedule Information
      • Shifts: 645 am and pm starts; can clock in 638am-646am or 638pm-646pm, otherwise late.
      • Weekend Requirement: M-Thurs team and a weekend team; you will work M-Th or F-Sun team.
      • Holidays: Rotated in with perm staff; every other holiday can be expected.
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Duties: All RT duties such as nebs, airway management, vapotherm, bipap, cpap, vents, ABG collection, bedside pfts, CPT, in ICU the RT will place A line, manage blood gases, will intubate, do bronchs.
        • Common Patient disease processes: COPD, CHF, pneumonia, resp failure, ARDS, cancers, etc.
          • Additional Details
          • Strict 75 mile radius rule.
          • There will be a hospitalist who will respond to codes, but a respiratory therapist will be the first line when it comes to intubating patients.
          • Unit: Respiratory
          • # treatments per day: Therapists do 550 minutes per shift, average of 15 minutes per treatment. Average of 13-15 patients per shift.
          • Charge RT: Yes, run a Charge and Clinical Coordinator.
          • Vents: Servo vents (U and I models).
          • Pharmacy 24/7: Yes.
          • Floating: n/a.
          • Floor specific orientation: For floor assignments, first week is hospital and charting orientation; next week list lightened, take 300 min first day, 400 next and then 500 next and then on their own; For ICU, they will add another week of orientation.

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