Respiratory Care Practitioner, 6:30a-7p
Louisville, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Respiratory Care Practitioner provides physician-ordered respiratory care and participates in patient assessment, care planning, education, and discharge planning. The role includes initiating and evaluating respiratory protocols, monitoring care quality, coordinating workflow between shifts, and supporting daily respiratory care operations. The practitioner also maintains current knowledge, identifies problems and solutions, and participates in in-service training.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Experience Required
None
Minimum Education Required
Associates Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Respiratory Care Practitioner will report to work on time and ready to work in a quiet professional manner, following hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Provide quality care as ordered by the patient's physicians. Responsible for the initiation of respiratory protocols and/or the evaluation of protocol steps that include all modalities of therapy. Serves as a member of the patient care team to assess, develop care plans, evaluate appropriateness of respiratory care modalities, and assist with discharge planning as needed. Provide patient and family education related to medications and therapy modalities appropriate to assessed learning skills. Participate in monitoring quality of care. Organizes workflow to maintain smooth transition between shifts. Assist in the day to day operations of the respiratory care services by neat and accurate documentation, entering charges for patient billing, monitoring and ordering supplies and medications, and other duties as assigned. Maintains current knowledge via hospital and department communication tools. Identifies problems and recommends ideas and solutions. Demonstrates critical thinking skills. Participates/Provides in-service training.
You may be eligible for some of our programs:
Tuition Assistance to aid with school costs.
Relocation Assistanceto help you make the Louisville Metropolitan or Southern Indiana area your new home.
Employee Referral Incentiveto support your networking and help others join our team.
Comprehensive Benefitsto choose from to support your needs.
Qualifications
Required:
Associate Degree
One of: CRT or RRT, (RRT must be obtained within 6 months of hire).
Respiratory Therapist (KY)
Desired:
One year in respiratory in a critical care setting
Certified Respiratory Therapist (National) OR Registered Respiratory Therapist (National)
Norton Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran/S Exual Orientation/Gender Identity Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
162860
How this job compares
Set against the 4,130 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr40 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,755 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is close to the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Respiratory Therapist hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 67 open Respiratory Therapist jobs in Kentucky and 4,130 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Aya Healthcare, Inc.21 open
- Baptist Health19 open
- Norton Healthcare (this employer)7 open
- Experience
- Respiratory Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,242 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 1,582 of the 4,130 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (38%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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