Overview:
Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion, and community! Knapp Medical Center, a member of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference.
Knapp Medical Center is an award-winning, not-for-profit hospital in Weslaco, Texas.
With 227 beds, the community hospital specializes in emergency care, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, wound care, surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, critical care, and interventional radiology.
Knapp serves as the only acute care hospital in the Mid-Valley area, as well as Weslaco's only Level III Trauma Center, Advanced Primary Stroke Center, and Level II Newborn Nursery.
Knapp has been providing quality and compassionate healthcare to Mid-Valley residents for 60 years.
More than 300 physicians serve on the hospital's medical staff.
Knapp also serves as one of the largest employers in the Mid-Valley, employing more than 450 people.
For more information, please call 956-968-8567 or visit www.
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to veteran status, disability, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics.
If you need special accommodation for the application process, please contact Human Resources.
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Responsibilities: Under the direction and authorization of the medical director and cardiopulmonary director/manager, the RCP I is responsible for performing respiratory therapeutic and pulmonary diagnostic procedures as ordered by the physician.
Emphasis will be toward the assessment, planning, implementation and documentation of care, with consideration of age and population specific needs and requirements of the patient.
In the absence of a supervisor, may be assigned/identified as Lead RCP, having responsibility for the section or department during their shift.
Qualifications: Education and Work Experience
State Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP) License required
Current BCLS (AHA) certificate upon hire and maintain current.
2 years? experience as a RCP preferred.
ACLS certificate within 60 days of hire and maintain current
NRP certificate preferred
PALS certificate within 60 days of hire and maintain current.
Associate Degree or Bachelor of Science degree required.
If there is no Associate Degree or Bachelor of Science Degree, a high school diploma or equivalent is required
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