Pulmonary Function Tech / RRT

Munson Medical Center Traverse City, Michigan Day shift

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Requisition #: 64024
Total hours worked per week: 32

Description

 
CERTIFICATION, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION 
 
Min/Preferred 
Certification, Licensure, Registration 
Comments 
Minimum 
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)  
Through the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC). 
Preferred 
Certified (C-PFT) or Registered (R-PFT) Pulmonary Function Technologist  
Through the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC). 
  
  
 
OTHER REQUIREMENTS 
  • Prior experience in pulmonary diagnostics preferred. 
  
  
  
 
 
Essential Duties 
 
  • Assessment 
  • Collects health data in a systematic and ongoing manner involving the patient, family, and other health care providers as appropriate. 
  • Determines the priority of data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs. 
  • Documents relevant data. 
  • Planning 
  • Individualizes a plan for patient testing utilizing established diagnostic protocols and procedures. 
  • Implementation 
  • Implements diagnostic testing delivering therapy as applicable in a safe, timely and appropriate manner and documents interventions and response to therapy. 
  • Coordinates and collaborates in care delivery and testing. 
  • Employs health teaching and health promotion strategies. 
  • Evaluation 
  • Documents patient responses to interventions. 
  • PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS 
  • Quality of Care 
  • Embraces and supports the Performance Improvement philosophy of Munson Medical Center. Participates in quality improvement activities. 
  • Acknowledges that safety is a self-responsibility. Knows the physical requirements of the job and works within those guidelines. Performs job duties safely at all times, utilizing body mechanics and transferring/lifting techniques. 
  • Plans actions to promote safety. Reports any unsafe situations/equipment according to Hospital procedure. 
  • Supports effective communication. 
  • Participates in quality-of-care activities at the department level. 
  • Utilizes the results of quality-of-care activities to initiate changes in respiratory practice. 
  • Practice Evaluation 
  • Evaluates own practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations. 
  • Engages in performance appraisal on a regular basis, identifying areas of strength as well as areas for professional development. Takes action to achieve identified goals. 
  • Acquires and maintains current knowledge and competency in respiratory practice. 
  • Education 
  • Participates in ongoing educational activities related to clinical knowledge and professional issues. 
  • Complies with mandatory continuing education requirements to maintain credentialing and meet job requirements. 
  • Seeks experiences that reflect current clinical practice in order to maintain current clinical skills and competence. 
  • Collegiality 
  • Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and other health care providers as colleagues. 
  • Contributes to an environment that is conducive to the clinical education of respiratory students, other health care students and other employees as appropriate. 
  • Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment. 
  • Ethics 
  • Utilizes the AARC Statement of Ethics and Professional Conduct and the Hospital ethics committee to guide practice. 
  • Maintains patient confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters. 
  • Acts as a patient advocate and assists patients in developing skills so they can advocate for themselves. 
  • Delivers care in a manner that is culturally sensitive and preserves the patient autonomy, dignity, and rights. 
  • Maintains a therapeutic and professional patient-therapist relationship with appropriate professional role boundaries. 
  • Reports illegal, incompetent, or impaired practices. 
  • Collaboration 
  • Collaborates with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers for provision of seamless delivery of services. 
  • Consults with other healthcare providers for patient care as needed. 
  • Participates, as appropriate, in the organization’s structures and processes. 
  • Research 
  • Utilizes current research findings and current practice guidelines to strengthen patient care. 
  • Resource Utilization 
  • Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care and testing. 
  • Assigns or delegates tasks consistent with organizational policies, procedures, protocols, legal and regulatory requirements according to the knowledge and skill of the designated caregiver. 
  • Records and submits productivity reports to assist with staffing measurement and resource allocation. 
  • Leadership 
  • Provides leadership in the profession and the professional practice setting. 
  • Promotes advancement of the profession through involvement with professional organizations. 
  • Performs and maintains proficiency with inpatient and outpatient diagnostic studies for adult and older pediatric patients. Testing performed includes spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion, negative force measurements, MVV, airway resistance, bronchial challenge, exercise induced bronchospasm, pulmonary exercise studies and ambulatory oximetry. 
  • Maintains the accurate functioning of equipment through calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, service and repair. Updates equipment and maintains documentation of these activities in a service and maintenance manual. 
  • Assists with pulmonary diagnostic equipment evaluations for future purchases. 
  • Schedules pulmonary diagnostic studies and coordinates these studies with other 
  • treatments and procedures as required. 
  • Communicates directly with the medical staff regarding special needs the patient may have in regard to pulmonary diagnostic studies. 
  • Charges for all diagnostic procedures performed, provides billing information for the interpreting physicians. 
  • Orders stock and equipment for the maintenance of an efficient lab. 
  • Maintains current BCLS certification. 
  • Provides pulmonary diagnostic testing at designated affiliate sites as scheduled. 
  • Maintains basic respiratory care skills for use in emergency situations. 
  • Participates in all mandatory education and proficiency testing. 
  • Provides spirometry screening at designated community events. 
  • GENERAL 
  • Supports the Mission, Vision and Values of Munson Healthcare 
  • Embraces and supports the Performance Improvement philosophy of Munson Healthcare. 
  • Promotes personal and patient safety. 
  • Has basic understanding of Relationship-Based Care (RBC) principles, meets expectations outlined in Commitment To My Co-workers, and supports RBC unit action plans. 
  • Uses effective customer service/interpersonal skills at all times. 
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 
  
  
  
 
Work Environment and Physical Requirements 
  
  
  
 
Reports To 
Accountable to the Pulmonary Diagnostic Coordinator. 
Receives guidance from the Respiratory Care Medical Director, as needed. 
  
  
  
 
Organizational Expectations 
• Models Munson Healthcare’s Purpose – We Improve Lives  
• Embraces and supports the Munson Healthcare Alignment Framework including our Purpose, Mission, Vision, Values, True North Goals, Strategic Vision and Goals, and Operating System. 
• Promotes personal and patient safety. 
• Uses effective customer service/interpersonal skills at all times. 
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 
  
  

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