Prisma Health

Prisma Health

Respiratory Therapist (RT)- Neonatal-Pediatric Critical Care Transport (FT)

Greenville, SC

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About the role

  • Provides advanced evaluation, stabilization, and critical care management for patients aged 0-17 years old, including the extremely preterm infant, requiring transport between facilities.
  • Ensures safe and effective care during transport, following established clinical protocols and regulations
  • All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health.

Responsibilities

  • Exhibits effective communication and intentional compassion, ensuring professional bedside interactions with patients and families, referring physicians, outlying facilities, and EMS support personnel.
  • The RT performs airway maintenance including proper use of manual resuscitators, oral and nasal pharyngeal airway insertion, intubations, and tracheostomy care.
  • Initiates, maintains, transports and monitors mechanical ventilators to include conventional and non-conventional modes of ventilation.
  • Independently manages both advanced invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation.
  • Performs appropriate cleaning/disinfection and sterilization of equipment between patients as indicated by equipment type and isolation status.
  • Ability to perform duties on all transport modalities to include rotor-wing, fixed-wing, or ground ambulance.
  • Accurately and completely documents patient care via electronic software.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Experience - Three (3) years of inpatient and/or ED experience as a Registered Respiratory Therapist with at least two (2) years of Level III NICU and PICU experience.
  • Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses
  • RRT from NBRC (credentials must be maintained)
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Knowledge and experience with various ventilators including the High Frequency Oscillator Ventilator (HFOV), Jet Ventilator, TXP, and Nitric delivery systems.
  • Associate's degree in Respiratory Therapy.

Benefits

  • Provides a complete and accurate report to Medical Control.
  • Makes recommendations to medical directors during transport as appropriate.
  • Graduate of a school for Respiratory Therapy approved by the American Medical Association or a successor accrediting authority.

This listing is sourced directly from Prisma Health's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.