Job Description

Overview:

Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 15 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 15,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.

Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.

Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.

HSHS and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Summary:

Provides for the treatment, management, control, diagnostic evaluation and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardio-respiratory system. Measures, observes, assesses, and monitoring signs and symptoms, reactions, general behavior, and general physical response of individuals to respiratory care services including the determination of whether those signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general physical responses exhibit abnormal characteristics. Administers pharmacological and therapeutic agents related to respiratory care services. Collects blood specimens and other bodily fluids and tissues for, and the performance of, cardiopulmonary diagnostic testing procedures. Develops, implements, and modifies respiratory care treatment plans based on assessed abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system, respiratory care guidelines, referrals, and orders of a licensed healthcare professional. Applies, operates, and manages mechanical ventilatory support and other means of life support. Initiates emergency procedures as appropriate.

Schedule

PRN Qualifications:

Education

Bachelors Respiratory Care Preferred

Experience

N/A

Certifications, Licenses and Registrations

Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) Required

Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner in the state of practice Required

Basic Life Support (BLS) Required

HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital, Inc.