Job Description

Every Skill. Every Effort. Everything We Have

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of happiness, passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it?s just one of the many reasons we?ve achieved our fifth consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. Working with dedicated healthcare professionals, you will use brand new facilities. You will have everything needed to do something incredible for yourself and others. Join us, and discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals!

Job Responsibilities:

The Respiratory Therapist II is an RCP who performs general ward therapy procedures including: 02 therapy, bland aerosol therapy, medicinal aerosol therapy, volume expansion therapy, bronchial hygiene procedures, CPR. You will also perform Adult Critical Care RT procedures including: setup and management of continuous invasive and non-invasive ventilator systems, specialty gases, and related monitoring and encouraging adjuncts. Training in of performance of Arterial Puncture for Blood Gas Analysis is required. You may pursue additional training in all "subspecialty services" provided by the CSMC Respiratory Care Services to include: management of Perinatal/ Pediatric Ventilator Systems and related adjuncts; Bronchoscopy Assist; Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center RT procedures; RT Order Entry System Operation. Once training is complete, a RT is encouraged to function as assigned in the subspecialty areas in which they have been trained and adjudged functionally proficient.

Additional primary duties and responsibilities that are only performed in the specific department(s) below: Pulmonary Function lab:

• Schedules patient testing.
• Verifies MD orders and diagnosis-based indications for testing.
• Ensures pre-test pulmonary history and consent for exercise testing are complete, explains the purpose and side effects of ordered tests to patients.
• Performs pulmonary function tests, exercise tests, arterial puncture.
• Collates and submits verified results for pulmonologist interpretation.
• Completes and submits patient billings.
• Certified / Registered Pulmonary Function Tech upon hire.
• Minimum of 1 year experience working in pulmonary function testing.

ABG Lab

• Receives lab specimen from tube system for analysis.
• Verify and validate patients information on the blood sample to test ordered.
• Analyze blood sample per department policy and procedure.
• Validate and report critical lab results to provider / patient?s nurse.
• Participate in lab correlation and linearity studies required by governing bodies.
• Troubleshoot analyzer and perform minor maintenance on analyzer when required.
• Performs quality control and proficiency testing sample analysis.
• Adheres to blood gas lab safety and infection control policies.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Respiratory Therapy (Bachelor's Degree highly preferred).
• State of California as a Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP).
• Current Advanced Life Support (ACLS) certification.
• Current PALS

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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