Travel Respiratory Therapist
Houston, Texas
The Woman's Hospital of Texas

RRT/CRT Texas License

NRP

PALS

Unit Information: Respiratory Care Department

Location: The Woman’s Hospital of Texas

Address: 7800 Fannin Houston, Texas 77054

Floor: 4th Floor

Building: Main Campus

Number of Beds - 148 bed Level 3 & 4 NICU, 18 Pedi Beds, 14 PICU beds, 4 adult women’s ICU, Level 2 NICU 30 Beds

Number of Staff – (2) FT night shift needed primarily in the pediatric units only

Type of staff: Day Shift, Night Shift – 3 nights per week 12-hour shifts, rotating weekend and holidays, disaster team staffing requirement, and 6:30p.m.-7:00a.m. (Possibly 4 shifts per week availability)

Patient Ratios – 6-8 pts to 1 RT based on acuity

Type of equipment – Hamilton G5 and T1, BCPAP, Neptune Heaters, Teleflex HFNC, HFOV, INOmax DSiR, PB980 (adult women only), Aerogen solo and Ultra, RapidPoint Blood Gas Analyzers

EMR – MediTech and Rapidcomm

Skill Set Most recruited for: (Travel RNs, local CNAs and sitters)

Must have: RRT/CRT Texas License, BLS, NRP

Preferred or nice to have: Level 2 NICU/Pedi and PICU/ER/Adult experience

List typical procedures performed on unit(s): Vent management of pediatric and adult women intubated, trache care, and non-invasive, MDI/Nebulizer tx’s, Chest Physiotherapy, and Oxygen therapy, Treatments to Pediatric and adults, IS, ER for respiratory distress, Nitric Oxide, ABG analysis, in house procedures, Arterial Punctures, EKG’s all age groups, Level 2 NICU (BCPAP and oxygen neonates only)

Dress Code: Scrub Color - Steel Grey

Unit Guidelines/Policies: Please feel free to attach unit policies and guidelines.

Awards/Recognition: Feel free to include items such as links to videos that feature the department, outstanding department/team awards, reigning annual chili cook-off winners, etc.

Any additional information that would entice a worker to select your unit for their assignment: We are the only PICU Hub for all HCA Gulf Coast Division; Partnership with Nexxus Health, This is a guaranteed Pedi/PICU position regardless of census without the requirement to float to Level 3 & 4 NICU, Great opportunity to work right outside of the Houston Medical Center with a convenient parking garage located onsite, We are a designated trauma hospital, Amazing Pediatric Intensivists that offer a lot of RT autonomy, We have an external HCA transport team that provides rotor wing and ground transports, Currently in the process of building our congenital heart program by end of the year into Q1 2025!

BLS

NRP

Level 2 NICU/Pedi and PICU/ER/Adult experience preferred

PALS preferred

Rotating weekend and holidays

Disaster team staffing requirement

6:30p.m.-7:00a.m. (Possibly 4 shifts per week availability)

Patient Ratios – 6-8 pts to 1 RT based on acuity

Type of equipment – Hamilton G5 and T1, BCPAP, Neptune Heaters, Teleflex HFNC, HFOV, INOmax DSiR, PB980 (adult women only), Aerogen solo and Ultra, RapidPoint Blood Gas Analyzers

EMR – MediTech and Rapidcomm