About this role
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
Learn more at Nemours.org.
Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.
Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.
To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org
Position Responsibilities
- Perform routine and specialty pulmonary function testing, stress testing, and metabolic assessment testing
- Perform complete and accurate patient assessment or reassessment
- Provide education to the patient and/or patient/guardian in a manner that the recipient understands in order to contribute to a positive patient care outcome and patient satisfaction
- Perform quality controls and ensure preventative maintenance is completed on diagnostic equipment
- Maintain and order supplies necessary for pulmonary function lab
- Assist with patient flow of clinic
- Obtain vital signs
- Capture and enter patient information into EMR
- Collect and prepare laboratory specimens
- Manage all telephone calls in a courteous and timely manner with documentation of call in EMR
- Ensure provider’s orders are completed
- Under the direction of the provider, schedule diagnostic test to include pre-authorization and notification of patient for pulmonary testing
- Perform testing according to protocols related to diagnosis
- Operate and maintain ultraviolet light according to policy to turn over rooms when needed
- Ensure medications are safely stored in an appropriate area as designated by law, and that medication expiration dates are evaluated on a monthly schedule
- Familiar with pharmacokinetics, contraindications, side effects, and mode of administration of all medications prescribed by providers
- Oversee ordering of emergency supplies and for crash carts with removal and replacement of expired items
- Ensure accurate ICD-9 and CPT-4 codes are recorded
- Support the durable medical equipment needs of patients
- Draft, initiate, and follow durable medical equipment orders for new and existing patients
- Troubleshoot respiratory equipment and insurance issues
- Perform ventilator checks with carbon dioxide measurement
- Respond to equipment issues for patients at ambulatory appointments
Position Requirements
- Associates or higher degree in Respiratory Care required
- Current licensure in Florida as a Registered Respiratory Therapist.
- RRT required
- Current American Heart Association BLS required within 30 days