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Soloh Partners is seeking a local contract Registered Respiratory Therapist for a local contract job in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Registered Respiratory Therapist
• Discipline: Allied Health Professional
• Start Date: 09/21/2026
• Duration: 12 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours
• Employment Type: Local Contract

Required Education:
-Associate's Degree in respiratory care.
Preferred Education:
-Bachelor’s degree in respiratory care.
Required Certifications & Licensure:
-Mandatory certification in respiratory therapy (Kentucky Board of Respiratory Care).
OR
-Respiratory license (Indiana Professional Licensing Agency) appropriate for facility location.
-Registered Respiratory Therapist by the National Board for Respiratory Care.
-BLS
-ACLS
-PALS (except for candidates in Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) as determined by the hiring manager)
-NRP (required for candidates working with Neonatal population) (not required for candidates in Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) as determined by the hiring manager)
Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
-N/A

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Job Summary:
The certified respiratory therapist assesses, treats, and monitors patients with respiratory diseases and conditions. This includes the delivery of medicated and non-medicated therapy as ordered by the provider. Additionally, therapists provide invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilator support for acute respiratory failure. As part of patient assessment and management, the therapist performs diagnostic test procedures. In addition, therapists assist in departmental operations by addicting quality improvement projects, equipment, and supplies. The certified therapist follows all applicable rules and regulations established by the licensure board depending on the state in which respiratory therapy is practiced.
Job Responsibilities:
--35% Critical/Emergent Care:
-Responds to emergency situations throughout the facility, including code blue, and rapid response situations.
-Responds, attends, and provides appropriate patient support in high-risk delivery situations, including care of the compromised newborn.
-Airway management, including care and maintenance of endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes.
-Assess and monitor patients on invasive and non-invasive ventilatory support, adjusting parameters as ordered and to ensure optimum patient outcomes.
-Perform and/or assist with advanced specialty procedures such as endotracheal tube insertion, arterial line, and bronchoscopy.
--30% General Care:
-Performs provider prescribed medicated therapy including small volume nebulizer, and meter dose inhaler, utilizing safe medication administration standards.
-Performs provider prescribed therapeutic procedures such as chest physiotherapy, oscillating positive expiratory pressure, and positive expiratory pressure.
-Provides oxygen therapy, adjusting as appropriate for patient needs and provider order.
-Completes patient assessment and provides appropriate recommendations to providers.
-Provides education on therapy, respiratory disease, and medications to patients and significant others.
--15% Diagnostic Procedures:
-Specially trained and competent therapists complete pulmonary function testing as ordered, maintaining national standards for testing procedures.
-Specially trained and competent therapist neurodiagnostic studies such as electroencephalogram as ordered, maintaining national standards for testing procedures.
-Specially trained and competent therapists complete cardiac testing such as 12-lead electrocardiogram and holter monitoring.
-Perform arterial and capillary blood gas sampling.
-Analyze and interpret laboratory tests such as blood gases.
-Completes and documents oximetry studies
--10% Communication:
-Document patient assessment, therapy, and other pertinent patient information in the medical record.
-Verbally, provide pertinent patient information to others for on-going care and shared decision making, such as shift report and transfer to alternate level of care.
-Provides education to peers and students.
-Reviews and responses to departmental communication, including email.
-Participate in situational debriefs.
-Participates in on-going departmental and facility processes such as quality improvement, risk and safety.
-Attend and participate in departmental meetings including monthly department meetings, huddle board and in-services.
-Communicates with departmental leadership concerns, issues, and events.
--10% Equipment and Supply Management:
-Clean and prepare equipment for use, such as invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilators, and therapeutic gas delivery devices.
-Ensure proper functioning of departmental analyzers.
-Evaluate and communicate equipment or supply needs.

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Skills:
Required Skills & Experience:
-No Experience required.
-Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations.
-Practices effective, clear, and respectful communications (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language.
-Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly, while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team.
-Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns, including taking corrective action when necessary.
-Invasive mechanical ventilation.
-Non-invasive mechanical ventilation.
-Medicated therapy (nebulized or meter dose inhaler).
-Non-medicated therapy (chest physiotherapy, positive expiratory pressure).
-Arterial puncture.
-Analysis of blood for blood gases, and electrolytes.
-Oximetry monitoring and studies.
-Medical gas administration.
-Pulmonary function and other diagnostic tests.
-Patient assessment.
-Airway management.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
-Healthcare or customer service experience.
-Limited permit/student respiratory license experience.

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Soloh Partners Job ID #L32928582. Posted job title: Hardin-Respiratory Therapist

About Soloh Partners

WHO WE ARE 

How you project yourself in the world says a lot about you. So, what do we think is important for you to know about us? Soloh Partners is proud to be a certified women-owned business. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are driven by our passion for service: service to our clients & their mission and service to our candidates and employees. We believe in making things personal. It isn’t just business for us. This is about shaping careers and building an engaged workforce. To be successful at either you, need to be invested in both.

OUR MISSION 

Our mission is to be recognized by our clients as an indispensable partner in their pursuit of high-impact Talent. We succeed by creating and maintaining intensely caring and mutually rewarding relationships with our internal employees, candidates and contingent workforce. We aren’t just a staffing agency; we fancy ourselves creatives. We create opportunity. We create excitement. We create and foster relationships built on trust, and partnerships based on mutual respect and understanding.

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401k retirement plan
• Weekly pay
• Sick pay
• Referral bonus
• Wellness and fitness programs