Responsible to perform daily Respiratory Care procedures as assigned, which include but are not limited to: IPPB, medication administration via aerosol therapy, oxygen therapy, percussion and postural drainage, mechanical ventilation, CPR, pulmonary function screening, and arterial blood gases. Able to perform in all emergency situations and provide intubation if applicable.
Must be a Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT) through the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) or Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT). Must be licensed by the Kentucky Board of Respiratory Care as a Respiratory Care Practitioner in the State of Kentucky and in accordance with the provisions of KRS chapter 314A. Basic Life Support and other advanced training as appropriate. Critical Care and emergency Room experience preferred.
Incumbents not meeting these specifications have been grandfathered based on qualification in effect prior to the date on page one of this document.
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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.
