Registered Respiratory Therapist
Bardstown, KYJob$27.36–40.7/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Registered Respiratory Therapist joins a team providing specialized cardiopulmonary care to patients with breathing issues. The role includes assessing patient needs, developing and executing care plans, and delivering respiratory treatments in routine and emergency situations. The therapist also supports resuscitation and rapid response efforts and maintains respiratory equipment and supplies.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Respiratory Therapist, you will join an established team of RTs who share your passion for delivering highly specialized cardiopulmonary care to patients experiencing breathing issues. You'll be instrumental in providing a range of treatments from breathing techniques and nebulizer treatments to ventilator management, oxygen therapies, and external ventilation support.
Every day you will apply your keen assessment skills and critical thinking to manage diverse patient needs, develop and execute effective care plans, and ensure calm, focused intervention in both routine and emergent situations.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, unwavering calm under pressure, and the ability to anticipate outcomes. Your dedication to patient well-being and exceptional problem-solving abilities will drive success in this vital role.
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Plans and administers non-medicated aerosol and humidity therapy.Plans and administers oxygen therapy (including implementation of oxygen therapy protocol where appropriate.
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Plans and administers aerosolized medication and specialty gas therapy.Plans and administers COPD care program.
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Performs airway management.Performs electrocardiography studies.
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Plans and administers incentive spirometry.Cleans and reprocesses respiratory therapy equipment and stocks supplies for immediate use.
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Plans and administers bronchial hygiene and performs chest physiotherapy (including implementation of bronchial hygiene protocolwhere appropriate).
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Performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation and manual ventilation during resuscitation attempts and aides in rapid response calls when appropriate.
Sign On Bonus up to $25,000 and Educational Assistance (Student Loan Payback) up to $24,000 for Eligible Hires
Job Requirements
Required
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Associates Of Science Cardiopulmonary Services, upon hire or
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Associates Of Science Respiratory Care , upon hire
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Respiratory Care Practitioner: KY, upon hire and
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Registered Respiratory Therapist, upon hire and
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Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
Preferred
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 90 Days
Where You'll Work
Welcome to Flaget Memorial Hospital, a 52-bed facility located in Bardstown, Kentucky. Founded in 1951 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Flaget Memorial Hospital is recognized as a 2023 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.
CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.
Pay Range
$27.36 - $40.70 /hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,151 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$27.36–40.7/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr40 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,758 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $34.03/hr, is 369% above the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the top quarter of Respiratory Therapist hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 69 open Respiratory Therapist jobs in Kentucky and 4,151 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Aya Healthcare, Inc.22 open
- Baptist Health19 open
- Norton Healthcare7 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 (1,246 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 1,556 of the 4,151 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (37%) 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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