Allina Health
Location
Fridley, Minnesota
Salary
$38 - $51 / HOUR
The Respiratory Therapist assesses, diagnoses, and treats patients with cardiopulmonary disorders, providing respiratory assessment and therapeutic intervention under physician direction. Key duties include managing mechanical ventilation, performing diagnostic testing, and educating patients and staff on pulmonary disorders and respiratory procedures.
Required qualifications include an Associate's or Vocational degree from a CoARC accredited program, or 0 to 2 years of experience in a critical care setting. Candidates must possess a Licensed Respiratory Therapist certification for Minnesota and meet at least one requirement for basic life support certification (BLS).
Location Address: 550 Osborne Rd NE Fridley, MN 55432-2718
April 28, 2026 Department: 38025300 Unity Respiratory Therapy Shift: Permanent Nights (United States of America) Shift Length: 12 hour shift Hours Per Week: 30 Union Contract: SEIU-7-UnityTechnical-TUY Weekend Rotation: Every 3rd Job Summary: Join Allina Health as a Respiratory Therapist, where you'll play a crucial role in our Respiratory Therapy team. Your expertise will be essential in addressing patient needs and facilitating a seamless healthcare experience. Your commitment and collaboration are key to delivering exceptional care at Allina Health. Key
0.75 FTE (60 hours per two-week pay period) 12-hour Night shifts Every 3rd weekend rotation Meet Our Care Team Members: Respiratory Therapist
Assesses, diagnoses and treats patients suffering from cardiopulmonary respiratory disorders. Under the direction of a physician, educates patients and staff regarding chronic and acute pulmonary disorders, provides consultative services to area hospitals/agencies, and provides technical and educational support to nurses regarding respiratory procedures. Principle Responsibilities Provides respiratory assessment and therapeutic intervention. Identifies opportunities to improve outcomes by utilization/recommendation of appropriate therapies or interventions. Applies knowledge of approved protocols and clinical indications for interventions and routinely applies protocols to progress patients appropriately. Communicates with the care team to ensure exchange of essential information. Demonstrates competency with operation and troubleshooting of equipment used for therapy. Provides for safe/effective management and monitoring of all forms of mechanical ventilation. Provides mechanical ventilatory support safely and effectively to meet objectives identified by the provider and/or protocols. Demonstrates competency in operation and troubleshooting of ventilators. Identifies best mode of ventilation and opportunities to optimize patient-ventilator interface, makes recommendations to provider as appropriate. Assess readiness to wean, recognizes failure to wean and documents findings. Provides invasive and non-invasive ventilation, ventilation during transport, manual resuscitation by bag/valve device, weaning assessment, respiratory mechanics and waveform analysis, non-traditional modes and techniques. Manages airway appropriately to include positioning, securing, humidification selection and suctioning. Negotiates decisions within own scope of practice and in the best interest of the patient. Collaborates with nurses and providers to assure respiratory goals are not in conflict with other aspects of patient care. Provides disease management education to patients and families. Recognizes opportunity to increase patient knowledge of disease management and/or coping skills. Reinforces positive patient behaviors and skills during treatment interactions. Possesses and shares knowledge of asthma self-management and COPD education. Educates patient on inhaler techniques, peak flow monitoring asthma and COPD education to achieve patient compliance for self-administration. Educates patient on diaphragmatic and pursed lip breathing techniques to alleviate dyspnea. Conducts diagnostic testing and analysis. Completes necessary tests to assist in the medical management of the patient. Demonstrates competency in technique and technology to meet standards. Possesses clinical knowledge of interpretation of results and acts accordingly. Complies with policy and procedure as well as processing of report. Other duties as assigned. Required Qualifications Associate's or Vocational degree from a Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) accredited Respiratory Care Program or 0 to 2 years in a critical care setting
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