Respiratory Therapist CRT

HCA Houston Healthcare West; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

401(k) Plan with match

Education support

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare West Seeks a Respiratory Therapist (CRT) to assess and deliver comprehensive respiratory care across neonate to geriatric patients. You will manage bronchodilators, oxygen therapy, and ventilator support under supervision, ensuring safety and adherence to orders.

Responsibilities include verifying orders, maintaining devices and procedures, and preventing infection while applying ABG analysis and airway management techniques as needed.

Qualifications

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• NBRC-CRT Certified Respiratory Therapist credential required.

Responsibilities

• Initiates, assesses, and evaluates respiratory therapy including bronchodilators, chest PT, oxygen therapy, and ventilator care.
• Verifies and signs all new orders for respiratory care.
• Recognizes, interprets, and records signs and respiratory status.
• Initiates and maintains cardiopulmonary support as ordered.
• Prevents contamination and transfer of infection.
• Operates ventilation equipment and ensures safe use of respiratory gases and humidification.
• Performs airway maintenance including endotracheal and tracheotomy care.
• Assists in arterial blood gas analysis and specimen collection.
• Uses techniques to aid secretion clearance (hydration, chest physiotherapy, postural drainage, suctioning).
• Extubation procedures and post-extubation care are performed as required.
• Monitors safety and equipment operation, addressing hazards.

Education

NBRC-CRT Certified Respiratory Therapist

Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)

Job description

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) Respiratory Therapist CRT you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Houston Healthcare West which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Under general supervision initiates, assesses, and evaluates all forms of respiratory therapy including bronchodilators, chest physical therapy, oxygen therapy, and non-invasive and invasive ventilator care. Exercises technical knowledge in respiratory anatomy, physiology, and pathology as well as the design and operations of all respiratory therapy equipment. The RCP demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate care to neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adult and geriatric patients.

What you will do in this role:

• To know and understand the objectives, policies and procedures.
• Verifies and signs all new orders for respiratory care.
• Assures that all physiciansResponsible for the recognition, interpretation, and recording of signs and
• Responsible for the initiation and maintenance of cardiopulmonary
• The prevention of contamination and of transfer of infection, through
• Responsible for knowing the mechanics of ventilation and ventilatorfunction.
• Responsible for knowing the principles of airway maintenance, including
• endotracheal and tracheotomy care.
• The effective and safe use of equipment for administering oxygen and other
• therapeutic gases and for providing humidification, nebulization, and medication.
• To know and understand the principles of arterial blood gas analysis, acid-base
• balance and demonstrated competence in obtaining arterial blood gas samples.
• To know and understand the methods that assist in the removal of secretions
• from the bronchial tree, such as hydration, breathing and coughing exercises,
• postural drainage, therapeutic percussion and vibration, and mechanical clearing
• of the airway through proper suctioning technique.
• Responsible for procedures and observation to be followed during and after extubating.
• Responsible for the recognition of and attention to the psychosocial needsof patients and their families.
• To know the operating principles of the equipment and all safety aspects
• related to equipment and gases, including the control of electrical, flammable, explosive, and mechanical hazards.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• (NBRC-CRT) Certified Respiratory Therapist

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare West, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare West is a full-service, 300+ bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years. We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments. We are recognized as a Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community The Woman’s Hospital of Texas at West Houston, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower. The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.