POSITION SUMMARY:

To be fully engaged in providing No Harm / Quality, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by: showing clinical proficiency in the adult and/or neonatal critical care areas. He/she should have a thorough understanding of all respiratory care modalities and be capable of making judgment decisions and recommendations to physicians pertaining to respiratory care modalities. He/she should also be able to evaluate these techniques and report their findings to the responsible physician. Display ICARE Values in accordance with the Health First Mission and Vision.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Quality/No Harm:

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1. Maintains equipment in good working order and troubleshoots when necessary; reports all malfunctioning equipment to appropriate area/associate with documentation of problem.
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2. Thorough documentation, including patient care, interdisciplinary Plan of Care, patient education, and charges appropriately for care provided.
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3. Gives report to oncoming shift on all patients and procedures, and assures completion of workload before leaving.
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4. Medication safety- removes only one patient's medication at a time from Pyxis system.
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5. Patient identification- Uses Pyxis med slip to appropriately identify two patient identifiers.
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6. Hand-off communication - reads back/verifies all verbal and telephone orders, reports patient information to the appropriate associate in a timely manner, follows established approach to reporting including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions.
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7. Follows proper infection control procedures for care provided, and proper hand washing technique.
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8. Initiate and manage invasive and non-invasive ventilation per physicians' orders, including troubleshooting and discontinuation. This includes BiPAP, CPAP, and all modes of mechanical ventilation.
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9. Ability to perform acute and intensive care functions for the adult/pediatric patient.
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10. Demonstrate ability to interpret CXR for ETT, Pulmonary Artery, and IABP catheter placement, as well as the ability to interpret basic cardiac/pulmonary complications, ability to initiate Heliox therapy. Understands indications, contraindications, and complications. Demonstrate knowledge and ability to perform emergent intubation, elective oral and nasal intubations.
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11. Demonstrates knowledge and ability to perform arterial line insertions.
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12. Proficiency in SVO2 monitoring and calibrations.
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