Respiratory Therapist Nurses needed in California
Overall Assignment Amount: $37,765
Overall Weekly Amount: $2,905
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 13-week assignment
3 or 4 - 12 hour shifts available
Nightshift 7p-7a
Requirements:
- Licensure: Active California License
- Certification: AHA BLS, NRP, PALS, ACLS (preferred)
- Experience: 2 years of PEDS RRT
- Unit will accept EMSA if traveler has applied for CA Licensure and has anticipated completion date!
Benefits:
36 Hour Option:
Overall Assignment Amount: $37,765
Overall Weekly Amount: $2,905
- $30/hr and $45/hr overtime.
- Weekly Per Diem: $518
- Weekly Housing: $1,172
- Weekly nontaxable Stipends: $1,645
48 Hour Option:
Overall Assignment Amount: $43,225
Overall Weekly Amount: $3,325
- $30/hr and $45/hr overtime.
- Weekly Per Diem: $518
- Weekly Housing: $1,172
- Weekly nontaxable Stipends: $1,645
Available Insurances:
- General and Professional Liability coverage
- Worker Compensation coverage
- 401(k) Plan participation available
- Employee Referral Program
Responsibilities:
- Assess, treat, and care for patients with breathing disorders
- Assume primary responsibility for all respiratory care modalities, which includes maximizing patient's pulmonary function; alleviating pain; planning and administering medically prescribed respiratory therapy
- Meets patient's goals and needs and provides quality care by conducting pulmonary function tests; assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results; determining respiratory therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians and by prescription.
- Helps patient accomplish treatment plan and supports life by administering inhalants, operating mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, and aerosol generators.
- Administers respiratory therapy treatments; assisting with breathing exercises; monitoring physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes.
- Evaluates effects of respiratory therapy treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient's progress, recommending adjustments and modifications.