For allied health professionals who expect more from their careers, OU Health is the place to be. We are the state’s premier academic healthcare institution offering unsurpassed care, teaching, research and technology. As part of our valued team, you’ll address a broad range of complex cases with a choice of several distinct settings, including our flagship University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma Children’s Hospital and Edmond Medical Center, our community hospital. As a not-for-profit organization, OU Health is reinvesting back into the organization for a future bright with promise.
Pediatric Respiratory Therapist I | Pediatric Respiratory Therapist II | Adult Respiratory Therapist I | Adult Respiratory Therapist II
Our Respiratory professionals enjoy the satisfaction of working with a broad range of patients and playing a pivotal role as a member of an interdisciplinary team. We administer procedures and therapies you won't find anywhere else in Oklahoma, allowing you to maintain your skills.
Children's Respiratory
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital is the state’s premier institution
for treating both pediatric and neonatal patients. We promote a fast-paced
environment that will allow your career to really take off. Pediatric
experience is not necessary as we welcome new graduates to our team. Our
12-week orientation process will help ensure that you will find your confidence
through a combination of developing critical thinking skills and peer support.
At Oklahoma Children’s you can also expect to gain a host of specialized skills in any one of our three focused areas. These areas include a 96-bed NICU where we care for extremely premature infants with high frequency ventilation and surfactant delivery. We have a recently renovated 34-bed PICU where the focus is to treat acutely ill infants and children. We have also expanded our CVICU to 25- beds where the focus is caring for patients with congenital heart defects. We encourage our RTs to join the ECMO team as well. Our program will also encourage and help you attain your specialty credentialing.
Adult Respiratory
OU Health is the state’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and serves as
a comprehensive regional hub for trauma-related care available to people
of all ages. We are an academic facility and promote a fast-paced environment
that will allow your career to really take off. We have six clinical affiliate
programs for Respiratory care and we welcome new graduates to our team,
no experience necessary. Our graduated orientation process, from floor
care to Trauma ED, will help ensure that you will find your confidence
through a combination of developing critical thinking skills and peer support.
At OU Health you can expect to gain a host of specialized skills by rotating through our service line critical care areas, which include Trauma, ortho/surgical, cardiovascular, Neurosciences, transplant and medicine ICU’s. We encourage and support our RTs to perform in specialty roles such as the COPD navigator, Daily assessor, Smoking cessation advocate, Diagnostic Bronchoscopy and we have staff that are part of the ECMO specialist team as well. We would love for you to join our team!
Learn more about the Respiratory Career Ladder.
Members of our Cardiovascular Services team provide compassionate patient care in our state-of-the-art facilities. OU Health is equipped with the latest technology to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of common and complex cardiac and vascular disorders.
Dedicated to the healing of the whole child and focused on the physical and psychosocial well-being of our patients, Child Life specialists help promote development and minimize the stress of hospitalization for families.
Various Allied Health professionals provide patient- and family-centered care and support during stressful situations. Areas of expertise include our cardiac programs, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), dialysis, otorhinolaryngology, craniofacial surgeries, transplant services, complex thoracic surgeries and trauma services.
OU Health Imaging professionals work to ensure our patients have a comfortable and positive experience. Our leading-edge technology includes a SPECT/CT imaging system and PET/CT hybrid camera, the first of their kind in this area. Our MRI twin-speed system is one of only a few in the world.
OU Health has open Imaging positions across our health system, including University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma Children’s Hospital, and Edmond Medical Center. Some positions are eligible for up to $10,000 in sign-on bonuses, depending upon experience level. Grow your career through our career ladder program that offers advancement opportunities within each imaging modality and opportunities to cross-train and advance to new modalities.
Providing patient-focused care, our interventional radiologists are the most experienced in Oklahoma. We practice the latest advances, including drug-coated stents and medications that grow new blood vessels.
Whether patients are undergoing diagnostic testing or treatment, our professional team provides excellent patient support. Our state of-the-art technology includes 3T MRI and a proton therapy machine, which help provide optimal treatment to cancer patients.
Members of our Perioperative Services team ensure that surgical procedures run smoothly and efficiently and that our patients have a safe and sterile environment that supports optimal outcomes.
Our Pharmacists have the opportunity to enjoy satisfying patient interaction, including educating patients and their families. We have two onsite pharmacies that serve our inpatient and outpatient populations. We also dedicate clinical Pharmacists to specialized areas throughout the Hospital.
