Job Description

Description

West Florida Healthcareis 515 beds and is proud to be the area's leading health care facility inquality outcomes performance. West Florida Healthcare is the area's first Accredited Chest Pain Center and Breast Imaging Center ofExcellence. West Florida Healthcare is also the first hospital in the state ofFlorida to have earned Atrial Fibrillation with Electrophysiology ServicesAccreditation. In addition, West Florida Healthcare is an Advanced PrimaryStroke Center and offers specialized Emergency Department services tailoredspecifically to the needs of seniors as well as a Kids' ER dedicated to servingthe emergency medical needs of children.

The West FloridaHealthcare campus includes the acute care hospital, the area's onlycomprehensive, CARF-accredited physical rehabilitation hospital, and abehavioral health facility. Affiliated with HCA, the nation's leading providerof healthcare, West Florida Healthcare meets the community's healthcare needsin major services such as cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, oncology,orthopedics, robotic-assisted surgery, critical care, neurology/neurosurgery,emergency care, urology, behavioral health, gastroenterology, obstetrics,pulmonary, and rehabilitative medicine.

Under generalsupervision, the RRT (Registered Respiratory Therapist) will perform allrespiratory care related duties.

Set up and administerall routine and complex respiratory therapy procedures to patients of all ages.

Responsible for theapplication and operation of acute care ventilators used for continuous shortand long-term mechanical ventilation.

Respiratory Therapistsare expected to be self-directed in the absence of the full-time Team Leader.Maintain all department and hospital records and enter accurate informationinto the hospital computer for the therapy as given.

You are worth more thana paycheck. Enjoy the following benefits and more:

-          Medical, dental, flex spending, life, disabilitybenefits

A Degree in RespiratoryTherapy from an accredited program.