Respiratory therapist resume examples from 2025
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How to write a respiratory therapist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in respiratory therapist-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the respiratory therapist position.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is an easy way to let recruiters know you have the skills to do the job. Just as importantly, it can help your resume not get filtered out by hiring software. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical respiratory therapist skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a respiratory therapist resume:
- Patients
- Respiratory Care
- BLS
- RRT
- Acls
- Ventilation
- Life Support
- CPR
- Critical Care
- Pulmonary Function
- NRP
- Acute Care
- Rehabilitation
- Patient Education
- Resuscitation
- Patient Assessment
- Advanced Life Support
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Home Health
- Oxygen Therapy
- Medical Equipment
- Vital Signs
- Intubation
- NICU
- Compassion
- Nebulizer
- Airway Management
- Pulse Oximetry
- EKG
- Physician Orders
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the respiratory therapist.
How to write respiratory therapist experience bullet points
Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:
- Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
- Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
- Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.
Here are effective examples from respiratory therapist resumes:
Work history example #1
Respiratory Therapist
Midwest Medical Center
- Employed as a full time RRT at a 60 bed LTAC.
- Performed CPR on emergent patients.
- Experienced in Cardiac, NICU, PICU, and progressive care unit as well as emergency room (ER).
- Rotated NICU transport and call for critical neonates throughout region and sister hospitals of Bon Secours.
- Educated parents on neonatal CPR.
Work history example #2
Respiratory Technician
AT&T
- Installed and troubleshooting cable and Internet services
- Installed AT&T U-Verse Internet, IP Phone, Wireless Networking, and Cable TV.
- Installed an repaired internet, tv, an phones for customers in homes an businesses
- Contributed to restoration of major communication outages, while driving customer satisfaction in a team effort.
- Worked independently and as a part of team to provide quality and efficient customer service, internet, and cable.
Work history example #3
Ventilator
Texas Department Of Aging And Disability Services Council
- Assisted patients with CPAP/ BiPap devices, perform mask fittings, and adjusted pressure settings per physician's order.
- Trained in trauma, ICU, ER and general care.
- Documented patient response to treatment/ therapies in a timely and accurate information for medical personnel without errors.
- Assisted in trauma, surgical and medical ICU, wards, NICU, PFT, and Burn ICU.
- Prepared and delivered briefings and speeches to executives on status, programs and activities at national, international and local forums.
Work history example #4
Respiratory Therapist
Grady Memorial Hospital
- Explained treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- Trained and proficient in Neurology ICU, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Emergency Room, Burn Unit and NICU.
- Licensed with Dept of Health, ACLS, BLS
- Worked in the ICU, NICU, and MED SURG during my tenure as a respiratory therapist.
- Worked all areas of critical care including a Level III NICU.
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Add an education section to your resume
Here is the best way to format your education section:
- Display your highest degree first.
- If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
- If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
- If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Master's Degree in medical technician
San Joaquin Valley College, Visalia, CA
2009 - 2010
Highlight your respiratory therapist certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your respiratory therapist resume:
- Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)
- Basic Life Support for Healthcare and Public Safety (BLS)
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Neonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care Specialist (RRT-NPS)
- Certification in Pediatric Anesthesiology (PA)
- Certificate of Completion - Mechanical Ventilation