Respiratory Therapy Aide - Respiratory Therapy - Per Diem

Position Summary: Perform blood gas analysis. Inventory Respiratory Therapy equipment. Clean Respiratory Therapy/Bronchoscopy equipment. Deliver medical gas tanks/change tank banks.

Education, License & Cert: High school graduate with the ability to work well with patients and accurately with numbers. One semester of college biology, chemistry, and advanced algebra preferred

Experience: One year of allied health experience preferred.

Essential Functions: Performs functions under supervision of a Registered Respiratory Therapist

• Performs blood gas analysis.
• Effectively recognizes equipment functionality status and appropriately troubleshoots equipment.
• Performs blood gas quality control procedures and documents results appropriately.
• Delivers medical gas tanks to hospital units.
• Switches and changes tank banks in tank room, as well as large cylinders in other areas of hospital as needed.
• Inventories disposable equipment in Respiratory Therapy Department and ICU storeroom and replaces as needed.
• Disassembles, cleans and reassembles Respiratory Therapy equipment.
• Exchange disposable set ups as needed.
• O2 tanks and regulators (transporting, storage, changing regulators.
• Home O2 tank delivery
• Inventory of Respiratory Therapy Equipment
• Prep ventilators for use
• Restock respiratory stock rooms/areas
• Handwashing Audits
• Charges for Oxygen ‐ validate with finance/regulatory

Other Duties: 1. Participation in employee engagement activities is required.

• It is understood that this description is not intended to be all‐inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of this position.
• BLS provider

Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.