Respiratory Therapist Cover Letter Example

At St. Aldric Regional Medical Center I coordinate respiratory coverage for a 28-bed medical-surgical ICU, personally managing 12 to 16 ventilated patients per twelve-hour shift. I'm applying for the respiratory therapist opening at [Hospital name] because I want that same ICU acuity at a department that trusts therapists to drive vent-weaning decisions rather than waiting on rounds, since a six-hour delay in weaning can mean an extra day on the vent.

I drove adoption of a therapist-managed weaning protocol that cut average ventilator days from 5.1 to 3.9 and raised first-attempt extubation success to 95%, and I draw and interpret more than 20 arterial blood gases a shift, adjusting ventilation strategy within minutes for ARDS and post-arrest patients. I respond to roughly six rapid response and code events a week, securing airways until intubation.

I hold my RRT and Adult Critical Care Specialist credentials from the NBRC, an active state license, and current ACLS, PALS and NRP certifications. I onboard new graduate therapists on our Hamilton and Puritan Bennett platforms myself, and I'd rather walk a new therapist through a weaning trial slowly than let them extubate a patient on a guess.

I'd welcome a conversation about your ICU acuity and weaning protocol structure at [Hospital name]. Thank you for your time, and I'm glad to bring my ventilator-days and extubation data to a first conversation.