RRT Transport Services

North Texas Division Office

Description

Medical City Healthcare

RRT Transport Services

Full time- one 24 hour shift and one 12 hour shift weekly

Introduction

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:RRT Transport ServicesNorth Texas Division Office

Benefits

North Texas Division Office offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a RRT Transport Services for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Transport Respiratory Therapist shall be able to perform all duties stated in Respiratory Therapist job description. Provide care to infants from birth to pediatric patients prior to their 18th birthday, or older if they have a medical/surgical problem, followed or treated by a pediatric specialist. Provide total patient care during inter-hospital transports. Initiate emergency protocols independently following PALS and NRP guidelines. Collaborate with the Medical Control Physician, Transport RN, and referral staff to develop an individualized plan of care for the patient. Facilitate the transfer of patient care from the transport environment to the accepting unit or area.
In addition, the role of the Transport Respiratory Therapist is to assist the Transport RN in total patient care in conjunction with fellow team members during inter-hospital transport.

• Responsible for assessment and stabilization of transport patients.

• Performs necessary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

• Provides care to infants from birth to pediatric patients prior to their 18th birthday, or older if they have a medical/surgical problem, followed or treated by a pediatric specialist.

• Performs delegated medical functions within the parameters of the transport guidelines and under the supervision of the Medical Control Physician.

• Initiates emergency protocols independently following PALS and NRP guidelines.

• Collaborates with the Transport RN, Medical Control Physician and referral staff to develop an individualized plan of care for the patient.

• Assists the RN in facilitating the transfer of patient care from the transport environment to the accepting unit or area.
  

Skills Required

• Current PICU and/or NICU experience required

• Successful completion of an individualized Transport Team orientation with all transports reviewed for first 3 months.

• Successfully perform specific advanced skills, provide direct patient care, assess and stabilize, provide resuscitation measures and operate transport equipment.

• Must be able to care for neonate through adolescent patients with care into the adult population as needed.

• Requires full understanding and ability to utilize the Respiratory Care process.

• Requires knowledge, ability and judgment necessary to:

• Exercise judgment within the guidelines of the medical plan of care, department policy and licensure practice acts.

• Must possess knowledge of Respiratory therapeutics and the correlation of diagnostic assessment.

• Apply scientific knowledge; use a variety of respiratory equipment and perform multiple technical procedures.

• Make discriminating observation.

• Must be capable of performing CPR without limitation and respond to all emergent situations to manage patient.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• NRP required within 3 months of hire
• PALS required within 6 months of hire
• STABLE and CV STABLE required within 6 months of hire
• ACLS within in 12 months of hire
• (RRT/RCP-State) Respiratory Therapist/Practitioner licensed in the state of Texas
• (NBRC-CRT) Certified Respiratory Therapist, or (NBRC-RRT) Registered Respiratory Therapist
• EMT-P- required within 2 years of hire
• C-NPT or NPS required within 12 months of hire
• Minimum of 3 years working in PICU and/or NICU required
• Transport experience preferred

Medical City Healthcare strives to deliver excellence. We are committed to the care and improvement of human life. We provide the highest quality, cost-effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Medical City Healthcare is one of the North Texas region’s largest and most comprehensive healthcare providers. We have 16 hospitals, 5,000 physicians and more than 17,000 employees in Dallas-Fort Worth. Medical City Healthcare is the only healthcare system in North Texas with an adult and children’s hospital on the same campus. We are a part of HCA Healthcare. HCA Healthcare includes 185 hospitals in the United States and England. Medical City Healthcare has six hospitals that are Magnet® recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program®. We have been recognized by Texas Monthly as a Best Companies to Work for in Texas. HCA Healthcare has been named to LinkedIn’s 2021 Top Companies list of 50 best workplaces to grow your career.

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.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our RRT Transport Services opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

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.