Exercise Physiologist

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

3h • Onsite

About The Position

This position demonstrates principles of exercise and disease management, practices good clinical judgment, and progresses patients appropriately and safely during exercise. The Exercise Physiologist provides education to patients and families regarding their disease process and demonstrates awareness of their readiness and ability to learn. The role involves performing and documenting physical, psychosocial, and emotional assessments, identifying appropriate interventions, and writing complete plans of care with specific, time-based goals. The Exercise Physiologist re-evaluates plans of care and exercise programs to determine effectiveness, utilizes critical thinking skills to monitor patient progress, and promptly reports any physical changes to the physician. Additionally, the role involves preparing for patient discharge, ensuring patient and family rehabilitation goals are met, and displaying knowledge of patient resources and needs. The position also contributes to improving departmental standards of care through updating educational materials and providing inservices to staff. The Exercise Physiologist organizes patient treatment time, provides patient education, and documents all aspects of patient care and continued need for rehabilitation. Errors are reported promptly with appropriate follow-up action. The role serves as a patient and family advocate, responds to complaints, and reports them to management. The Exercise Physiologist utilizes the chain of command to resolve issues, assists willingly in coverage of other patients, performs insurance verification, and assists with departmental paperwork. Participation in performance improvement activities, attending staff meetings and mandatory educational sessions, and assisting in the training and education of students and/or graduate nurses are also key responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Physiology
• 2 years of relevant experience.
• (BLS) BASIC LIFE SUPPORT certification, course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) within 90 Days
• (ACLS) ADV CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT certification, course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) within 90 Days

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates principles of exercise and disease management.
• Practices good clinical judgment.
• Progresses patient appropriately and safely during exercise.
• Provides education to patient and family regarding patient's disease process.
• Demonstrates awareness of patient's and family's readiness and ability to learn.
• Performs and documents physical, psychosocial, and emotional assessments during initial evaluation.
• Identifies appropriate interventions based on initial evaluation.
• Writes complete plan of care with specific, time based goals for each intervention.
• Re-evaluates plan of care and exercise program to determine effectiveness.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills to monitor patient's progress.
• Reports any physical changes to physician in prompt manner.
• Prepares for patient discharge.
• Assures that patient's and family's goals for rehabilitation have been met.
• Displays good knowledge of patient's resources and needs.
• Works to improve departmental standards of care through updating educational material, providing inservices to staff.
• Organizes patient treatment time and provides patient education.
• Documents all aspects of patient's care and continued need for rehabilitation.
• Reports errors promptly and takes appropriate follow-up action to rectify error.
• Serves as patient and family advocate.
• Responds to patient's and/ or family's complaints.
• Reports complaints to Manager or their designee in timely manner.
• Utilizes chain of command to resolve patient, operational, or personal work related problems.
• Assists willingly in coverage of other patients.
• Performs insurance verification and re-verification.
• Assists with other departmental paperwork as needed.
• Participates in performance improvement activities as directed.
• Attends at least 80% of scheduled staff meetings and 100% of mandatory educational sessions.
• Assists in on-job training, education, and supervision of students, and/or graduate nurses.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level