Overview
The Respiratory Care Practitioner is responsible for a wide range of pulmonary function testing as part of multispecialty group that includes both adult and pediatric pulmonary specialists and a long-standing CHAD CF clinic.
Full-Time, 40 hours/week.
Responsibilities
* Performs cardiopulmonary and provocative bronchial reactivity testing.
* Challenges with accuracy and precision necessary to satisfy department standards and physician interpreters.
* Participate in the care of our adult and pediatric CF population. This will include attending clinic, care coordination, and equipment management.
* Administer medications as appropriate for scope.
* Performs pulmonary function testing including spirometry, diffusion capacity, airway resistance, lung volumes, respiratory muscle strength and venous blood gasses.
* Ability to safely assist with and monitor patients during field walking tests (e.g., ambulation assessments), while Instructing patients about t...