AGC Tenwek Hospital Respiratory Therapist Jobs in Kenya

AGC Tenwek Hospital Respiratory Therapist Jobs in Kenya

Job Summary

Work as part of the team

Duties to be performed under the orders of physician

Maintain license with appropriate licensing council (Nursing Council)

Goal for enough Respiratory therapists is to allow for 24/7 coverage of the hospital. Respiratory therapist will be able to physically respond to pages within 5 minutes even while on break.

Responsibilities

Attend rounds in ICU’s and HDU’s with various care teams, prioritizing rounds on ventilated patients.

Monitor Ventilated patients Q3H, optimizing ventilation, weaning and escalating as needed to meet target orders

Monitor CPAP/Bipap Q3H

Set up all ventilators

Be present to recieve all vented patients from theatre

Set up CPAP/BiPAP as needed

Preform all extubations*

Be present to assist or preform all intubations*

Be present to assist at all codes

Ensure all ETT are secure at the proper depth and re-secure as needed

Draw and Run arterial blood gasses in cooperation with the lab.*

Asses all Trach patients every shift, preforming teaching for self-care

Assess all patients requiring more then 6Lpm Oxygen daily

Assess all patients requiring more than 10 Lpm Oxygen every shift

Assess all ICU/HDU Patients every shift

Assist with the treatments of Acute Respiratory patients (i.e.

Asthma/COPD,etc) in Casualty or other wards

Assist with transport of all intubated patients*

Ensure Intubation emergency trays are checked weekly and after each use

In conjunction with physiotherapy preform chest physio as time allows

Preform Spirometry’s as ordered

Assist with Asthma/COPD teaching in out-patient as needed

Answer pages promptly

Assist biomed trouble shooting of respiratory equipment, and filling oxygen cylinders

Work as part of the team assisting other staff as time allows

*When procedure/transport is under the care of anesthesia RS does not need to do/attend.

Qualifications

Trained Respiratory Nurse from Tenwek College of Health Sciences Respiratory Nurse program

Registered Respiratory Therapist completed requirements from AARC (US) or CBRC(Canada)

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; AGC Tenwek Hospital Respiratory Therapist Jobs in Kenya

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