Respiratory Care Pulmonary Technician RRT- Full Time, Days
Status: Full Time
Shift: First
Demonstrates a solid knowledge and working proficiency in the skills of Respiratory Care practices, procedures and techniques and is responsible for the patients that are assigned to his/her care within the practices of Respiratory Care. Demonstrates clinical expertise to complete high quality pulmonary function and bronchoprovocation studies. Performs Arterial Blood Gases (puncture and analysis), and serves as resource to staff and physicians in the blood gas and pulmonary function laboratory. Responsible to manage the PFT and Blood Gas Laboratory to meet all governing and credentialing quality assurance and quality control standards described by the following agencies: ATS, CAP, CLIA ’88, NCCLS, OSHA, STATE and other accrediting or regulatory groups. Demonstrates a solid knowledge and working proficiency in the skills of Respiratory Care practices, procedures and techniques and is responsible for the patients that are assigned to his/her care within the practices of Respiratory Care.
Requirements:
Associate's degree/successful completion of accredited program for Respiratory Care.
NBRC Certification Required (RRT).
Active Kentucky Respiratory Care Practitioner License Required through the Kentucky Board of Respiratory Care (KBRC).
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) due within 1 week one hire and prior to providing direct patient care.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) due within 6 months of hire.
Registered or certified pulmonary function credentials within 2 years of hire.
Limited permit/student respiratory license experience preferred.
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
