Ali Altamimi, MBA, BsRC, RRT

Summary:

Assists Head of Service in coordination of day to day departmental operations in department with more than 200 employees. Responsible for quality and overall operational performance of all therapeutic and diagnostic respiratory care services. May act as Head in absence of Head of Service.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

. Provides administrative support to Head of Service.
. Acts as deputy for Head of RCS in his/her absence as directed.
. Assists with resolution of daily operational problems.
. Ensures optimum utilization of equipment, supplies, warehouse stock items, space and personnel.
. Directs departmental purchasing and product evaluation.
. Coordinates Special/Equipment purchase requisitions (SPR/EPR).
. Assists with preparation and maintenance of yearly budget.
. Assists with revision and implementation of departmental Policies and Procedures.
. Acts as a liaison between Respiratory Care Services and other administrative departments and external organizations.
. Manages and develops relationships with other institutions, professional affiliates, etc, as appropriate.
. Participates in and coordinates all Medical Outreach Programs.
. Assists in preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, statistical productivity and other reports.
. Coordinates administrative RCS intranet and computing systems and access.
. Assists in enforcement of all Personnel policies, and handling of disciplinary problems as requested by Head of Respiratory Care Services.
. Supervises and directs performance of Pulmonary Function Lab.
. Coordinates and oversees functions of RCS Blood Gas Lab.
. Assists and provides back-up to other members of RCS leadership team as required.
. Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.
. Participates in self and others’ education, training and development, as applicable.

• Supervises staff Respiratory Therapists, interns and students.

• Coordinates and monitors day to day operations of assigned areas.

• Assess daily workload and ensure proper staffing coverage. Provide clinical support as needed.

• Conducts staff annual evaluations.

• Provide education and training to new employees.

• Conducts and participate with performance improvement projects and internal policies and procedures development and revision.

• Liaise between staff and department leaders.

• Member of code/disaster plan calls back up team.

• Utilize conflict management skills to resolve issues emerge among staff.

• In 2018, contributed to hospital value of innovation with establishment of Minimally Invasive Surfactant Therapy Clinical Practice guidelines.
• Introduced Angiocath (catheter) as a novel way of delivering surfactant therapy.

• Orientated all new Respiratory Therapy (RT) employees, interns to neonatal intensive care (NICU) & Labor and delivery unit layout description, policies and procedures , introduction to unit staff, equipment orientation, didactic presentations. Also, specific safety guidelines, such as fire alarms, emergency exits, Safety Data Sheet, medical gas zone valve shut off and location of emergency equipment.

• Provided clinical coverage as needed.

• Provided training and education by conducting competency assessments over more than 15 medical devices to RT new hires, students and interns.

• Organized, conducted and lead team meetings regularly. Represented department in collaborative meetings in the NICU.

• Performed ongoing monitoring and reinforcement of policies and procedures on areas of assignment.

• Developed and started minimal invasive surfactant therapy clinical practice guidelines in 2018.

• Improved patient safety and performance through performance improvement project decreasing unplanned extubation (UE) rate by 64% in the NICU over 12 months in 2018.

• Revised and updated NICU respiratory care orientation manual in 2016.

• Reduced staff time waste by 3 folds implementing commercial airway securing devices (Neobar ETT holder) and replacing conventional airway securing methods in 2013.

• Streamlined nasal respiratory support interfaces utilized for different nasal respiratory support modalities in neonates utilizing commercial product (Neotech RAM NC) in 2012.

• Performed respiratory care procedures i.e. application of invasive and noninvasive respiratory support, blood gas sampling, lung expansion therapy, aerosol therapies, bronchopulmonary hygiene, surfactant replacement therapy, medical gas therapy.

• Attended adult and pediatric emergencies as part of rapid response team and Code team.

• Precepted new respiratory therapist employees, students and interns.

• Performed cardiopulmonary patient assessment & Chest radioghraph review and interpretation.

• Attended daily medical rounds to participate in the development and modification of daily respiratory care plans and therapeutic goals for patients.

• Modified ventilator management based on clinical assessment, physiologic monitoring, blood gas analysis and consultation with the physician.

• Provided assistance and management of airway care like intubations and tracheostomy tube changes.

• Attended High Risk Labor and Deliveries as a member of Neonatal Resuscitation Team.

• Assisted in hospital transport of mechanically ventilated patients.

• Conducted user-maintenance and troubleshooting of routinely used respiratory care equipment.