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Registered Respiratory Therapist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The candidate selected of this position works as a Respiratory Therapist, shift leader, and clinical instructor on an "as needed" basis under general supervision of the Shift Supervisor of Respiratory Therapy.
- →Also serves as a consultant to staff physician, residents, and interns.
- →Duties include but are not limited: Provide respiratory care to critically ill and/or poor risk patients in MICU and Step Down units.
- →Administer oxygen, aerosol, humidity, and positive pressure breathing therapy.
- →Position patient and perform chest physiotherapy and drainage, noting the effectiveness of therapy.
- →Implement adult artificial ventilation upon physician's orders.
- →Maintain and monitor ventilator patients as required and make adjustments based on blood gas analysis with the physician's approval.6.
- →Administer prescribed medications that pertain to the field, note contraindications and/or adverse reactions, and notify the physician and recommend corrective therapy as indicated.
- →Perform arterial blood gas analysis from arterial puncture or arterial line.
- →Analyze blood with the mechanical analyzer, interpret the results of the analysis, consult with the physician on the results, and make recommendations.
- →Perform maintenance, calibrations, repair, and quality control of the blood gas analyzers.
- →Provide emergency respiratory therapy treatments to critically ill patients.
- →Monitor patient reactions to therapy with the use of pulse oximetry.
- →Perform pulmonary function tests including spirometry, lung volumes, and exercise testing.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 02ce92a6-f664-4069-ac1e-5a33b8502125
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