Description
- Certification Details
- - BLS - Basic Life Support
- - PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- - CRT - Certified Respiratory Therapist
- - RRT - Registered Respiratory Therapist preferred
- Pending License accepted: No - IL license required at time of submission
- Job Details
- Position / Specialty: NICU Respiratory Therapist
- The respiratory department performs clinical respiratory modalities for children needing transitional care with complex medical conditions, chronic illnesses, developmental disabilities, abuse, and trauma.
- Administration of therapeutic gases, aerosolized medications, bronchial hygiene procedures, noninvasive monitoring along with noninvasive and invasive ventilator support.
- First-timers accepted: Yes
- Guaranteed Hours: Contracted Hours
- Hospital Highlights
- Type of Facility: Children's
- Magnet / Teaching / Level Trauma (if applicable): N/A
- Total Staffed Beds: 62
- Scrub Color: All: any color, neat and clean. Peds themed encouraged
- Charting: Meditech
- Parking Cost: Free parking in south or north lots. Facility is on a public park, so parking spaces are shared with the public.
- Job Requirements
- Years of experience REQ: 2 years
- Ratios: Unknown – avg. daily census 29
- First-timers accepted: Yes
- RTO Restrictions: RTO must be approved and included in the contract prior to the start date - No RTO may be added after the contract has started.
- Special Requirements:
- - Meditech experience required
- - Teaching Hospital experience required
- - Community Hospital experience required
- - LTAC experience required
- Skill Requirements:
- - Pediatrics
- - Endrotracheal tube/suctioning
- - Extubation
- - Intubation
- - Nasal airway placement
- - Nasal airway suctioning
- - Oral airway placement
- - Oropharyngeal/suctioning
- - Tracheostomy/suctioning
- Schedule Information
- Shift: 3x12 Night
- Weekend REQ: Yes – every other weekend
- Is on-call REQ? No
- Open to accommodating block schedule? TBD by unit's needs
- Will clinician float within scope to meet facility needs? No
- Additional Details
- Locals accepted: Yes – same rate as travelers
Compensation Information:
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