Cardiac Rehab Coordinator

It's more than a career, it's a calling

WI-SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Department: Rehabilitation Services

Patient Population: Outpatient Adults

Schedule: Full-time, dayshift

Starting Pay: $23.86+ (Offers are based on years of experience and equity)

Location: SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo

707 14th St.

Baraboo, WI 53913

Must have Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehab experience.

Job Summary:

Provides direct patient care to cardiac and pulmonary rehab patients including various types of monitoring, education and therapeutic exercise programs.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assesses patient needs daily through chart review, unit nurses or cardiac nurse, physicians and interdisciplinary team.

• Provides exercise prescription for patients utilizing test data, patient status and current medication regimen; updates prescription according to the patient's response.

• Schedules and coordinates patient assessment, testing, results reporting, treatment and follow up as needed.

• Assesses hemodynamic response and patient tolerance to activity progression and utilizes information to provide appropriate exercise prescription.

• Performs appropriate documentation of monitored ambulation, education and discharge planning per departmental policies, guidelines and practices as pertinent for setting.

• Participates in routine maintenance and calibration of the test equipment to ensure its proper operating condition and reporting the need for major repair.

• Assists in recruiting/interviewing and onboarding of new associates.

• Creates quality improvement monitoring strategies and improvement initiatives.

• Assist in monitoring of staff performance.

• Provides exercise information for patients, peers and the community which may include public speaking and education classes.

• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.

• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.

• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

• Rare climbing.

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

~~~ Cardiac Rehab

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

36

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