Job Summary

The Respiratory Therapist - DME is responsible for providing respiratory care and managing the distribution and maintenance of durable medical equipment (DME) for patients. The role involves assessing patient needs, educating patients and their families on the use of respiratory equipment, and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations and standards.

Job Duties

• Consistently performs and documents thorough patient assessments.
• Establishes appropriate care plans by evaluating patients’ respiratory needs.
• Setting up and maintaining respiratory therapy equipment such as CPAP and BIPAP machines, Instructing patients on the use and maintenance of respiratory therapy equipment.
• Compliance follow up: Making calls to ensure patients are adhering to their prescribed therapy.
• Resupply management: Handling requests for additional supplies and placing orders as a needed.
• Mask fittings and exchanges: Ensuring patients have properly fitting mass and facilitating exchanges when necessary.
• Tracking patient progress and compliance with therapy and documenting all interaction and interventions.
• Maintains effective communication with patients and healthcare providers about patient care, compliance, and pressure settings.
• Provides appropriate, age-specific, patient and family education as it relates to disease management.
• Adheres to regulatory requirements and safety standards.
• Adheres to institutional and nationally established standards of care.
• Maintains the confidentially of patient information according to established internal and external specifications and regulations including release of information and HIPAA.
•  Functions as a preceptor for orientees.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details

Benefits of working at Geisinger: 

• Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one  

• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents   

• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA)   

• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage   

• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions   

• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly   

• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year   

• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive   

• Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones   

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care. Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more.   

• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance   

Education

Graduate from Specialty Training Program- (Required)

Experience

Certification(s) and License(s)

Registered Respiratory Therapist - National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC); Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.

We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.

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