Lexington Regional Health Center Formerly Tri County Hospital - Casual Registered Respiratory Therapist Resume Example

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Emily Bell

Professional Summary

I am a motivated leader with prioritization abilities. I started my career as a Respiratory Therapy Assistant while obtaining my Respiratory Care degree. I advanced to a Registered Resppiratory Therapist and while obtaining my bachelor's degree in Healthcare Management I was promoted to Respiratory Therapy Supervisor.
I have saved our department time and money after changing our billing/documentation system. I was the leader in adapting our system to a charging process driven from therapist documentation. This resulted in less steps for the therpaists saving them time in their day. This change decreased discrepencies in billing-if the therapy was documented it was billed. This also decreased the amount of time department management spent on entering charges and auditing charges.
I assisted in developing a therapist driven protocol. The Respiratory Therapy Protocol allows the therapist to determine the therapy given to patients based off patient assessment. This provides a patient specific course of treamtent and chages as the patient's condition improves or declines.
I received training and obtained my Process Improvement Greenbelt. My project was simplifying and improving the process to admit patients into inpatient pulmonary. Ultimately to increase the number of inpatient pulmonary rehab which would also increase our number of outpatient pulmonary rehab patients.
I co-created a Home Oxygen Order sheet that put every step in qualifying a patient for home oxygen, the physician's order and all required documentation into one sheet. This streamlined the process for getting patients their home oxygen in a timely manner and saving the therpaist time.
I drove the process for an Asthma Camp for youth that our department organized and ran for one year.
Accomplishments:
Team STEPPS Master Trainer
GSH Leadership University Class #4
Process Improvement Greenbelt
AARC National Sputum Bowl Competeition Nebraska Representative-2 years
References:
Sara Lauby, Director of Respiratory Therapy, Lexington Regional Health Center 308-324-8616
Arielle Tripe, Registered Respiratory Therapist, CHI Health Good Samaritan 308-440-6636
Laura Meyers, TRIMRS Coordinator 308-293-0623
William Bonner, Director of Respiratory Therapy, CHI Health Good Samaritan 308-865-7592

Skills

Team building
Patient focused care with a care team approach

Colaboration with multi-disciplinary team members
Communication with co-workers

Experience

Casual Registered Respiratory Therapist Feb 2009 - Present
Lexington Regional Health Center (formerly Tri County Hospital) Lexington, NE

General respiratory therpay

Respiratory Therapy Supervisor Dec 2006 - Oct 2014
CHI Health Good Samaritan Kearney, NE

Duties as listed below for a Registered Respiratory Therapist in addition to:
Trauma Improvement Committee Respresentative
Infection Contol Committee Representative
Orientation
TRIMRS (Tri-City Medical Response System-Healthcare Coalition.

hospital representative
Exercise design team
Hospital Subcommittee team

Organ Donor Council
Daily charges (oxygen, ventilators and BIPAP's that cannot be billed directly from chart documentation)
Chart Audits
Therapist counseling, coaching and discipline
Therapist evaluations
Forms Committe

I standardized respiratory language on all forms so it was inclusive and consistent

Policy Review
New equipment reveiw
Colaboration with care management, dispatch and EMS to line up patient transport

Patient transport to home or long term care facitilites
on patients who were trached or vent dependent

Colaboration with care management and home care companies to facilitate appropriate dischare

bake sale to create a fund for our patients who could not afford oxygen for transporation, initial oxygen, BIPAP or CPAP setup fees

Education to new nurses, nursing students and high school students
Timecards
Schedule
Intubations
Assist pulmonologist with Bronchoscopy

Casual Registered Respiratory Therapist Jan 2004 - Oct 2007
Tri County Hospital Lexington, NE

General respiratory care

Registered Respiratory Therapist Aug 2003 - Dec 2006
CHI Health Good Samaritan Kearney , NE

Code blue/Trauma Team/Rapid Response Team responder
Nebulizer/MDI therpapy
Ventilator/CPAP/BIPAP Management
Oxygen delivery
EKG's
Arterial Blood Gas sampling
Patient assessment
Assessment of patient response to treatment
Communication with physicians and nurses to alter treatment plans for patient
Colaboration with physician's, nurses, ancillary depts, care management and numerous other departments
Education to patient's and families about treatment, treatment options, effects of treatments
Education to patient's on disease management

Respiratory Therapy Assistant Jul 2000 - Aug 2003
CHI Health Good Samaritan Kearney, NE
Cleaned respiratory therapy equipment, entered orders, performed EKG's, oxygen rounds, assisted respiratory therapists, oriented new respiratory therapists and respiratory therapy assistants on equipment cleaning and setup.

Education