Respiratory Therapist Registry
Posted Jul 8, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you had to run the floor as lead or charge therapist. How did you split the workload when the night got heavy?
What they are checking: Whether they can prioritize across a whole team's assignments and not just their own patients.
Tell me about a rapid response or code where your role was the airway. What did you do and what would you change now?
What they are checking: Whether they stay composed in emergencies and can reflect honestly on their own performance afterward.
Describe a time you disagreed with a nurse or resident about a patient's respiratory plan. How did it end?
What they are checking: Whether they can advocate for the patient while keeping working relationships intact on a short-staffed night.
Registry staff fill gaps on short notice. How do you handle being asked to pick up shifts, and what does reliable look like for you?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that a registry role only works if the hospital can count on them when they say yes.
What would you do
As a registry therapist you might walk onto any unit at Loyola, Gottlieb or MacNeal on a night shift. How do you get up to speed on a unit you've never worked before you take your first patient?
What they are checking: Whether they have a fast, safe routine for orienting themselves instead of assuming every unit runs the same way.
A physician gives you a verbal order that doesn't line up with the respiratory protocol approved by the Medical Director. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they will speak up and clarify respectfully instead of either blindly following or quietly ignoring an order.
You get three treatment calls and an ABG request at the same moment at 3 a.m. How do you sort them?
What they are checking: Whether they triage by patient risk rather than by whoever called first or loudest.
About the work
Walk me through how you assess a ventilated adult whose sats are drifting down and whose peak pressures just climbed.
What they are checking: Whether they think systematically through tube, patient and machine causes before reaching for a setting change.
You hold NRP and PALS. Talk me through how your approach changes when you're called to a neonate or a small child compared with an adult.
What they are checking: Whether they understand the real differences in tidal volumes, airway size and how fast kids decompensate.
How do you decide a patient is ready for a spontaneous breathing trial, and what makes you stop one early?
What they are checking: Whether they know weaning criteria well enough to protect patients from both early extubation and needless days on the vent.
Read me this gas: pH 7.28, PaCO2 58, HCO3 26. What's going on and what would you suggest?
What they are checking: Whether they can interpret blood gases quickly and turn the numbers into a sensible next step.
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