Top Reasons to work at AdventHealth for Children Orlando

• AdventHealth for Children has again been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a Best Childrenâ™s Hospital for newborn care
• AdventHealth for Children holds the gold standard Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Our Pediatric Cellular Therapy program is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), an internationally-recognized accrediting body for hospitals offering stem cell transplant.

•  Full Time 3 12's Nights

• Transports neonatal patients going to a nursery or a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
• Proactively initiates process improvement ideas.  Assists with clinical instruction and precepting and serves as a resource person to lower-level therapists. Performs other duties as requested by department leadership.
• Responds to all Code Blue emergencies immediately providing CPR.  Performs other duties as directed by Supervisor. Performs airway maintenance including: proper use of manual resuscitators, oral and nasal pharyngeal airway insertion, intubations/extubations, assisting with tracheostomy insertions, performing tracheostomy changes, assisting with bronchoscopy, airway suctioning and procedural respiratory support.
• Properly utilizes patient assessment skills, protocols, chart review, and conferring with multidisciplinary team to determine efficacy of therapy. Performs respiratory therapies and oxygen delivery per protocol. Obtains, analyzes and reports findings of blood gases and co-oximetry.  Performs quality controls as needed. Sets up and performs oximetry apnea, TC, and ETCO₂ monitoring.
• Initiates, maintains, transports, and monitors mechanical ventilators to include conventional and non-conventional modes of ventilation and transport ventilation.  Reviews chest radiological reports as necessary per supervisor and policy and procedures.
• Delivers neonatal resuscitation and assists with APGAR scoring at delivery per NRP guidelines.  Performs artificial surfactant replacement.  Maintains proper equipment in labor/delivery/perinatal/ pediatric areas.

• Requires a minimum of 2,000 hours of Neonatal ICU experience (per Florida State Rule 64J)
• Requires at least one year of pediatric critical care experience
• Current valid State of Florida license as a Registered Respiratory Therapist
• Current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification
• Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS) certification
• Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
• Bachelorâ™s degree in Respiratory Therapy (Preferred)