Job Details
Job Title: Registered Respiratory Therapist
Location: Hershey, PA
Shift: Nights 3x12-Hour
Start Date: 02/24/2026
Job Type: 13-week Contract
Position Summary:
The Registered Respiratory Therapist is responsible for monitoring and treating patients with temporary or chronic respiratory conditions like asthma, COPD, pneumonia, bronchitis or emphysema. Their duties include interviewing patients and completing diagnostic tests to determine their respiratory conditions, communicating with Physicians and Nurses to develop patient treatment plans and administering respiratory treatments to patients based on their conditions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform chest examinations on a range of patients from babies through to the elderly
- Consult with doctors and other healthcare staff to develop and modify patient treatment plans
- Provide detailed therapy, requiring significant independent judgment, like when caring for patients in intensive care
- Perform physical examination and diagnostic tests measuring lung capacity and blood acidity and alkalinity
- Treat patients using oxygen or oxygen mixtures, aerosol medications and chest physiotherapy
- Connect patients who can’t breathe to a ventilator
- Educate patients on how to use equipment and medication
- Regularly check on patients and equipment
- RRT
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- 2 year experience
Pay Rate
$60.91 - $65.79/hour
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