Respiratory therapist - Cynet Health, travel assignment company - Presnow-Isleta, Albuquerque, NM
(2026-01 - 2026-07)
- Nebulized breathing treatments & MDIs with spacers
- Set-up bipap and ventilators for patients
- Helped in code blue situations
- Set-up High Flow Nasal Cannula for adult and pediatric patients
- Assisted MDs with intubations and was there to back up MDs with difficult airways
- ECG performed
- Patient assessment
- Chart vital signs
- Roomed patients
- Discharged patients
- ED acknowledgement form signed
- Transport patients
- Triage patients
- Started IV's and removed IV's
- Drew labs & started fluids on patients
- Executed provider orders and instructions
- Gave splints and crutches to patients with sprains
- Performed wound care and sutured patient's wound
- Helped nurses with their assignments and other staff
- Triaged patients outside at our drive-thru tent
- Responded to rapid triage calls
- Strep/Flu & Covid swabbed patients
- Accurate charting on Epic and proper charges applied
Lead Rt - Lovelace woman's Hospital - Albuquerque, NM
(2025-04 - 2026-03)
- DCT/ Lead therapist experience
- Did the count and placed the assignments in for day and night therapist
- Helped fellow RTs with assignments and with computer charting
- Trained in med-surg, adult ICU
- NICU trained
- Performed ABG's on ICU/ED patients
- Performed nebulized breathing treatments in ER, med-surg, ICU and NICU
- Instructed patients on proper technique for nebulized treatment and IS
- Set bipap, ventilators, HLNC, bubble cpap for neonatal patients
- Performed ECG on pre-op and post-op patients
- Protocolled frequency of nebulized treatments as patients recovered from their disease
- Helped with high-risk deliveries. I.e., gave stimulation & dried patient, gave cpap, and oxygen to neonatal who need a little extra support
- Performed oxygen, ventilator and bipap/cpap checks per frequency
- Performed skin integrity checks per hospital protocol
- Help at LMC [Lovelace medical center] on Covid floors with ventilated & bipap patients during the first serge
- Helped prone and supine patients with Covid
- Helped with code blue situations
- Intubated patients
- Cleaned, set up Bipap, HFJV, HFNC and SST ventilators
- Performed NOx Box checks and titrated INO
- Accurate charting on Epic and proper charges applied
Clinical instructor - Central New Mexico community college - CNM, Albuquerque, NM
(2024-01 - 2025-01)
- Instructed students how to assess a patient
- Instructed students how to assess a ventilator/NIV
- Instructed students on how to do trach care
- Instructed students on how to do a vent check
- Instructed students on how to do CPT
- Instructed students on how to do neb tx and mdi's
- Instructed students on how to clean and set a vent
- Instructed students on how properly document on Cerner charting system
Respiratory Therapist - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM - Trauma One Hospital
(2022-06 - 2026-01)
Part time [0.6]=PRN
- Trained in Med-surg, Adult ICU, ED & PED's ED, PICU, NICU, General ped's floor
- Nebulized breathing treatments & MDIs with spacers
- Set-up bipap and ventilators for patients
- Cared for the airway in code blue situations
- Responded to Code blue situation in the ER w/ proper equipment
- Set-up High Flow Nasal Cannula for adult and pediatric patients
- Assisted MDs with intubations and was there to back up MDs with difficult airways
- Set up, administered, managed & maintained nitric oxide [Ino] machine via the Ventilator, bipap[NIV], HFNC
- Performed CPT on adult, pediatric
- Assisted RN's with their patient's care
- Assisted other RT's with their assignments and with any questions they had
- Cleaned and set-up equipment
- Performed ABG's
- Gave proper and accurate report at shift change
- Accurate charting on Cerner and proper charges applied
Respiratory Therapist - Presbyterian Main Hospital - Albuquerque, NM
(2021-09 - 2023-06)
full-time
- Trained in Med-surg, Adult ICU, PICU, NICU & ER
- Nebulized breathing treatments & MDIs with spacers
- Set-up bipap and ventilators for patients
- Cared for the airway in code blue situations
- Responded to Code blue situation in the ER w/ proper equipment
- Set-up High Flow Nasal Cannula for adult and pediatric patients
- Assisted MDs with intubations and was there to back up MDs with difficult airways
- Administered chest tube lytics
- Set up, administered and maintained Epoprostenol via HFNC, NIV, & Ventilator
- Set up, administered and maintained nitric oxide [INO] machine
- Performed CPT on adult, pediatric and neonatal patients
- Administered Surfactant to neonatal patients
- Assisted RNs with their patient's care
- Assisted other RTs with their assignments and with any questions they had
- Cleaned and set-up equipment
- Performed ABG's
- Accurate charting on Epic and proper charges applied
Respiratory Therapist - Pressnow [Paseo] - Albuquerque, NM
(2019-10 - 2021-09)
full-time
- Nebulized breathing treatments & MDIs with spacers
- Set-up bipap and ventilators for patients
- Helped in code blue situations
- Set-up High Flow Nasal Cannula for adult and pediatric patients
- Assisted MDs with intubations and was there to back up MDs with difficult airways
- ECG performed
- Patient assessment
- Chart vital signs
- Roomed patients
- Discharged patients
- ED acknowledgement form signed
- Transport patients
- Triage patients
- Started IV's and removed IV's
- Drew labs & started fluids on patients
- Executed provider orders and instructions
- Gave splints and crutches to patients with sprains
- Performed wound care and sutured patient's wound
- Helped nurses with their assignments and other staff
- Triaged patients outside at our drive-thru tent
- Responded to rapid triage calls
- Strep/Flu & Covid swabbed patients
- Accurate charting on Epic and proper charges applied
Respiratory Therapist - Lovelace woman's Hospital - Albuquerque, NM
(2020-01 - 2022-06)
Part-time-PRN
- Trained in med-surg, ICU
- Some NICU training
- Performed ABG's on ICU/ED patients
- Performed nebulized breathing treatments in ER, med-surg, ICU and NICU
- Instructed patients on proper technique for nebulized treatment and IS
- Set bipap, ventilators, HLNC, bubble cpap for neonatal patients
- Performed ECG on pre-op and post-op patients
- Protocolled frequency of nebulized treatments as patients recovered from their disease
- Assisted other RTs with their assignments
- Helped with high-risk deliveries. I.e., gave stimulation & dried patient, gave cpap, and oxygen to neonatal who need a little extra support
- Performed oxygen, ventilator and bipap/cpap checks per frequency
- Performed skin integrity checks per hospital protocol
- Help at LMC on Covid floors with ventilated & bipap patients
- Helped prone and supine patients with Covid
- Help with code blue situations
- Intubated patients
- Cleaned, set up Bipap, HFJV, HFNC and SST ventilators
- Performed NOx Box checks and titrated INO
- Accurate charting on Epic and proper charges applied
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) - Jewish Hospital - Louisville, KY
(2018-04 - 2019-10)
Full-time [nights]
- DCT/ Lead therapist experience
- Did the count and placed the assignments in for day and night therapist
- Helped fellow RTs with assignments and with computer charting
- Areas of experience ICU, ER and MED Surge areas/floods
- intubations, assisted with intubations, extubated patients [terminally and planned extubations]
- set up ventilators, adjusted ventilator settings, suctions patients inline and orally, cleaned and tested ventilators
- Cleaned and set up ventilators, high flow nasal cannula [airvo2], and bipaps
- nebulized medicine in line with the vent circuit and with hand held nebulizers, set up 1 hour long continuous nebulized treatments in the ER
- PT with a vest and with a pneumatic precursor, and a specialty bed
- ABG collection
- assisted in code blue situations, I.e., compressions and airway management
- set up bipap/cpap machines, placed and adjusted bipap/cpap mask on patient
- helped patients set up and place home mask on themselves
- transported patients to CT and MRI on a transport ventilator
- set up flolan medicine pumps and nitric oxide
- instructed patients on the use of IS and acapellas
- Knowledge of Cerner power charting
Respiratory Therapist - Norton's children's Hospital - Louisville, KY
(2019-03 - 2019-10)
PRN [nights]
- CPT with specialty beds, vest, wraps, and precursor
- Administer aerosol breathing treatments with frequencies of continuous, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q6
- Picu and med-surg floor experience
- Placed patients on trach collar and placed patients on home trilogy and home bipap/cpap
- Performed oral care and trach care
- Replaced circuits and low water bags for humidity
- Checked and weaned Vapotherms and high flow nasal cannula
- I-stat trained and EKG
- Epic charting
Clinical - Doctors Hospital Medical Center of Montclair
(2017-04 - 2017-04)
Clinical - Redlands Community Hospital
(2017-09 - 2017-09)
Clinical - Kaiser Permanente of Fontana
(2017-11 - 2017-11)
