·         Participates in advance airway management, in providing oxygen therapy, administering aerosolized medication, performing chest physical therapy and pulmonary function testing.  

·         Restores patient’s pulmonary function, alleviates pain, and supports life by 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, and determining respiratory therapy treatment plans in coordination with attending physicians and Intensivist.

·         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 by performing Broncho pulmonary drainage, assisting with breathing exercises, and monitoring physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes.

·         Directs treatments given by aides, technicians, and assistants.

·         Evaluates effects of respiratory therapy treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress and recommending adjustments and modifications.

·         Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.

·         Maintains patient confidence and protects hospital operations by keeping information confidential.

·         Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.

·         Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.

·         Complies with the scheduled on-call duty roster.