Contract-RRT-Respiratory-ICU(754)-7AM-7PM/8 Weeks

Job Description

Facility Overview:

For more than 50 years Methodist Healthcare has provided high quality care to patients from San Antonio, its 26 surrounding counties and around the world. Methodist Healthcare is recognized as the most respected and preferred health care provider in South Texas due to our outstanding team of nurses, medical professionals and 

. More people turn to our San Antonio doctors than any other hospital or system when they need healthcare.

Methodist Healthcare earns its excellent reputation at the bedside of our patients. At each of our facilities, Methodist Healthcare offers an outstanding selection of doctors, health care professionals, equipment and health services from wellness events to transplant services, pediatrics, dermatology, cardiology, oncology and a complete range of additional 

 in the South Texas region.

 includes nine acute care facilities: Methodist Hospital, Methodist Heart Hospital, Methodist Children’s Hospital, Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, Northeast Methodist Hospital, Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, Methodist Ambulatory Surgery Hospital, Methodist Stone Oak Hospital and Methodist Texan.

As San Antonio’s second largest private employer, our facilities employ more than 10,000 individuals, including 2,700 physicians in all specialties.

  

Unit Highlights:

Hospital:  Methodist Texsan Hospital

Location: San Antonio, TX

Unit: Respiratory (754)

Classification: RRT

Shift Detail: 7A-7:30P / 7P-7:30A

Building/Floor/Suite information of unit :

General Information

Shift Details- Please correct information below  if needed:

 

• Quantity:
• Assignment Length: 13 weeks
• Shift/Workdays: 7A-7:30P / 7P-7:30A
• Weekend –Discuss during the interview
• Call Requirements: Discuss during the interview
• Guaranteed Hours: 36
• Special Skills/Experience required: 2 years +
• Other Helpful or Misc. Information: 

***All candidates are required to float, while on the interview please inform candidate of the Methodist Floating Policy***

 

Unit Specifics - Information below is requested for better sourcing:

• Number of Beds : 120
• Patient Ratios : RT varies
• Unit staffing description- (unit secretaries and tech availability) : ICU amd floors
• Type of equipment : GE and Covidien vents, Metanebs, I-stat
• Documentation system: Meditech
• Scheduling requirements:
• Floating policy: As needed

 

Hospital Specifics:

• Certifications:

Hiring profile

Requested Skill Set:

 

Must have: (candidates without these skills will not be considered for the role)

 

• ICU Experience
• 2+ years of Hosp Experience
• BLS

Preferred Skills/Advanced Skills Needed: (candidates with these skills will be considered first)

 

• ACLS
• Meditech Eperience preferred

 

Specialty/Unit Certifications Required: (RRT)

 

• RCP / RRT

 

Procedures performed on unit: 

• Ventilator, Respiratory Therapy and ABGs

 

Patient Experience Required:

• 2 years

 

Dress Code: Include requirements, but most of all not acceptable attire.

• Scrub Color

o   RRT: Sage green/olive scrub top, blackscrub pant, sage green scrub jacket

• Nail Policy – Clean and Healthy
• Hair - hair should be neat and clean with no extreme styles or colors. Beards, mustaches and sideburns should be clean and neatly trimmed
• Tattoos – Body art should be covered whenever possible. Body art that is not feasible to cover on a daily basis will be addressed individually
• Piercings – Visible piercings other than ears, is prohibited
• Other –

Unit Guidelines/Policies:

• Floating Guidelines
• Methodist Acknowledgement Form
• Attendance Policies

 

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