Treat a wide range of patients from infants through the elderly
Consult with physicians and other healthcare staff to help develop and modify individual patient care plans
Provide complex therapy requiring a great deal of independent judgment, such as caring for patients who are on life support in hospital intensive care units.
Evaluate patients by performing limited physical examinations and conducting diagnostic tests including those that measure lung capacity tests and acidity and alkalinity of the blood
Treat patients by using oxygen or oxygen mixtures, chest physiotherapy, and aerosol medications.
Connect patients who cannot breathe on their own to ventilators that deliver pressurized oxygen into the lungs
Teach patients how to use medications and equipment
