Registered Respiratory Therapist
Sugar Land, TXJob$37/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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The Registered Respiratory Therapist joins a team providing specialized cardiopulmonary care to patients with breathing issues. The role delivers respiratory treatments, manages ventilation and life-support systems, performs monitoring and diagnostic testing, and supports patients during routine and emergent situations. The therapist develops and executes care plans and documents patient care in the departmental system.
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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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Administering therapy modalities which include, but are not limited to, Hand held Nebulizer (HHN), HHN via metered dose inhaler (HHN/MDI), Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV), Chest Physical Therapy (CPT), Pentamidine therapy. Medication administration may be included during these therapy modalities
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Administering medical gas therapy including oxygen and Helium-Oxygen Therapy (HeO2).
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Performing ventilation therapies, including maintenance and management of life support systems. These therapies are comprised of non-invasive and invasive ventilation therapies, as well as transport of ventilator patients to diagnostic procedures
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Performs physiological monitoring and diagnostic testing including, ABG puncture, bronchoscopy assistance, pulmonary function testing, bedside PFT's, metabolic monitoring, apnea monitoring, transcutaneous monitoring, capnography, and pulse oximetry and sleep apnea assessment.
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Performs specialized procedures which including but are not limited to, CPR, bronchial lavage, transport, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, artificial and tracheostomy airway care, and body mechanics/ambulation. Permanent or temporary assignment may be made to the Pulmonary Function Lab to perform diagnostic procedures to identify and quantify dysfunction by spirometry, gas diffusion, and body plethysmography
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Documenting all patient care accurately and completely in the required departmental documentation system
Job Requirements Required
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Completion of respiratory care degree program, upon hire
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Respiratory Care Practitioner: TX, 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 6 - months
Where You'll Work
St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital is a 100 bed facility serving residents of Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston. Our Family Birthing Center provides exceptional care in a spa-like setting, creating a VIP (Very Important Pregnancy) experience for growing families. Since opening in 2008, our dedicated team of physicians, nurses and support staff has proudly delivered expert, compassionate care to our community. Our services range from heart care and neuroscience to robotic surgery.
Pay Range
$37.00 - $37.00/hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,109 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$37/hr
- Texas median$34–45/hr70 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,754 hourly ranges
This rate, $37/hr, is 7% below the Texas median midpoint ($40/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Respiratory Therapist hourly ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 266 open Respiratory Therapist jobs in Texas and 4,109 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- HCA Healthcare105 open
- Baylor Scott & White Health24 open
- Houston Methodist19 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 (1,250 postings).
- Education
- 76 of the 4,109 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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