Respiratory Therapist - Fulltime at Avera St Luke's Hospital summary:
A Respiratory Therapist at Avera provides high-quality care and education for patients experiencing respiratory issues. This role emphasizes teamwork, critical thinking, and compassionate patient interaction, ensuring quality outcomes. Avera offers competitive pay, benefits, and opportunities for career growth in a supportive environment.
Job Summary
Join the team at Avera!
Award Winning Health Care: Avera has been named among the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems, Forbes list of America’s Best-in-State Employers and Level 10 Most Wired Health Care Organization by CHIME.
Culture: Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.
You Belong at Avera: Competitive pay, front-loaded PTO and options for free health insurance, sign-on bonuses, various shifts to fit your lifestyle and opportunities for career growth.
$15,000 sign-on bonus!
Are you a Respiratory Therapist that:
- Enjoys delivery care with a team passionate about quality patient outcomes
- Appreciates an active, challenging care environment that requires critical thinking
- Is seeking to develop relationships by providing respiratory therapies, education & companionship with patients as well as their families
- If you have a passion and desire to enrich lives and touch the hearts of patients, consider joining our team in providing compassionate, high quality care and services within a caring Christian culture.
This is the role for you!
Job Summary & Highlights
- Student Loan Repayment: This position is eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.
- May be eligible for a $15,000 sign-on bonus with a three-year commitment!
- Review patient records.
- View chest x-ray to determine presence of or changes in consolidation, atelectasis, pneumothorax, and position of endotracheal tube.
- Perform and evaluate beside spirometry, pulmonary mechanics, weaning parameter and peak flows.
- Perform ECG recordings and Holter Monitor setup.
