Join the Indian Health Service as a Respiratory Therapist and make a meaningful impact in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Provide life-saving respiratory care, patient education, and advanced cardiopulmonary services in a collaborative healthcare environment. Use your expertise to improve patient outcomes while serving populations with unique and rewarding healthcare needs. A REAL ID will be required beginning May 7, 2025, in accordance with 6 C.F.R. 37.5 (2021).
Provide respiratory therapy assessment, treatment, and monitoring services for patients across the lifespan in inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and critical care settings. Administer oxygen therapy, aerosol medications, airway management, ventilator support, and other respiratory care modalities. Perform blood gas analysis, pulmonary function testing, and other diagnostic procedures to evaluate respiratory status. Respond to respiratory emergencies and provide critical care support, including CPR, airway management, and ventilator management. Educate patients, families, and staff regarding respiratory treatments, equipment use, and disease management. Operate, calibrate, troubleshoot, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and infection control standards. Document care provided and participate in quality improvement and respiratory care program activities. Requirements: (Continued) IHS Selectees whose duties and responsibilities require them to work permanently, temporarily, or occasionally in an IHS healthcare facility must comply with the IHS Employee Immunization Policy related to vaccine-preventable diseases, consistent with recommendations for healthcare workers. Vaccine exemption requests may be available, as outlined in the IHS Employee Immunization Policy and facility guidance. Physical Demands: The work involves walking, sitting, standing, reaching and bending in the assessment and treatment of patients. Additional Information: (Continued) Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. IHS may offer newly-appointed Federal employees credit for their directly related previous non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
If you are substituting education for experience; You are strongly encouraged to submit a copy of your transcripts or a list of your courses including titles, credit hours completed, and grades. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required from all selectees prior to receiving an official offer. Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education may be credited. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.ed.gov/accreditation. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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