Exercise Physiologist - Cardiopulmonary Rehab, Full-time, Days, Baptist Hospital

Baptist Health Care•Pensacola, FL

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The Exercise Physiologist is responsible for the administration, clinical planning, development, and operations of the Baptist Health Care cardiopulmonary rehab program and staffing. The position works directly with the program manager to update and improve patient-centered care based on changing trends in cardiac and/or pulmonary rehabilitation. The position participates in the processes of assisting the patient with cardiovascular risk factor reduction and performs initial and ongoing assessments of patients' individualized treatment plan (ITP) in collaboration with other health care team members. The position fosters patient learning by providing ongoing patient education based on their needs and wants. The Exercise Physiologist works with students and/or collegiate interns to cultivate continuous learning to meet their educational goals as determined by their clinical experience requirements to include initial patient care assessments, evaluations, and appropriateness to modify patient goals and individual treatment plans.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Exercise Science, Kinesiology, Exercise Physiology
Completion of Collegiate Internship Required or 1-3 years Cardiac or Pulmonary Rehab experience Required
BLS for Healthcare Providers (BLS) American Heart Association within 30 Days Required
National Institutes Of Health Stroke Scale (NIH) within 30 Days Required
ACSM-Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist within 18 Months Required
Knowledge and/or experience in techniques/skills required for Cardiac and/or Pulmonary Rehabilitation (Medicare/AACVPR guidelines).
Knowledge in exercise physiology, exercise prescription, nutrition, risk factor modification, counseling techniques, behavioral modification techniques, ability to perform individual and group educational programs for patients/ family members.
Ability to lead individual and group exercise programs to include needed educational sessions to maximize the patient experience.
Uses the Intradisciplinary approach and hospital and/or community resources whenever a patient might present with unique needs: Health Literacy; Dietary; Smoking/Tobacco/Vaping cessation; psychosocial; socioeconomics and/or medical compliance.
Skill in educating patients, families, students and peers using various learning techniques and verifies/confirms understanding/comprehension
Ability to identify learning needs and foster learning.
Ability to implement and enforce safety measures for patients and peers.
Ability to communicate constructive feedback to optimize learning and establishes expectations.
Ability to interpret cardiac rhythms and work with ScottCare/Versa Care telemetry monitoring system.

Responsibilities

Assesses and evaluates new patients at intake into program.
Assists cardiac and pulmonary patients in goal-setting during the initial evaluation and throughout the program, and participates in discharge planning.
Conducts orientation session with patient, which includes interpretation of graded exercise test (GXT) results if available, performs fit testing of exercise prescription, guidelines for safety, and overview of program.
Assesses and evaluates the patient's GXT, fitness assessments, and medical data, and develops a safe and effective exercise prescription for the patient utilizing the appropriate mode, intensity, duration and frequency of exercise.
Conducts and monitors each exercise plan to include implementing safety parameters when appropriate.
Provides educational and training classes for patients/family/support system as needs are identified.
Monitors equipment daily and alerts department leadership and Bio-Medical Services for repair as needed.
References and complies with BHC Organizational and BHVI Program policies and protocols.
Assist in other duties as assigned to support the operational needs of the department and organization.
May be required to remain on campus immediately before, during, and after severe weather and/or disasters.