Cardiac Rehab Exercise Specialist

Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?
At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Job Summary:

Location: Methodist Hospital
Address: 8303 Dodge St, Omaha, NE

Work Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30am to 5:00pm

To provide safe and effective exercise and to provide quality care to adult clients involved in the Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs.

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

Admission assessment completed upon arrival to the unit and based upon identified patient needs.

• Consistently formulates initial exercise prescription prior to patient's first exercise session.
• Consistently reviews patients history and prioritizes rehab activities according to participant's needs.
• Consistently reviews graded exercise test and formulates exercise prescription accordingly.

Formulation of initial exercise plan to include physical needs, stated patient goals, and discharge plan.

• Consistently assesses patient's functional capacity.
• Consistently identifies patient's likes/dislikes regarding activity.
• Consistently identifies patient's likes/dislikes regarding exercise.
• Consistently formulates home exercise program for patient.

Assesses the patient's tolerance to activity/learning opportunities.

• Consistently reviews and updates patient exercise prescription each session.
• Consistently notes modifications in patient's exercise prescription due to patient's physical response to prescribed activity.
• Consistently assess participant's response to learning opportunities.
• Consistently develops further learning opportunities when needed.

Implements and documents actual plan of care.

• Consistently documents participant's tolerance of prescribed activity by documenting Rated Perceived Exertion (RPE), Rating of Perceived Dyspnea (RPD), Hazard Ratio (HR), Electrocardiogram (EKG).
• Consistently documents exercise prescription on daily exercise sheet.
• Consistently updates participant's home exercise plan on the daily exercise sheet on a weekly basis.
• Consistently records participant's activity plan on risk factor/goal sheets.
• Consistently documents significant change and/or abnormal findings on daily exercise sheet.
• Consistently records attendance of participant's at learning opportunities.

Demonstrates use of other health team members in planning participant outcomes.

• Consistently consults with other professionals regarding participant's individual needs.
• Consistently reviews, through case studies, participant's individual activity plan.

Demonstrates ability to maintain area updated on current trends on the field of exercise science.

• Consistently directs projects that maintain staff current in the field of exercise science.

Schedule:

Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30am to 5:00pm

Job Description:

Job Requirements

Education

• Graduate of an accredited college with a major in exercise science required.
• Masters level preferred.
• Satisfactory completion of annual mandatory education requirements.

Experience

• Three to six months previous experience in a cardiac rehabilitation program or internship.
• One to three months on-the-job training.

License/Certifications

• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.
• Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist (RCEP) is preferred.
• American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification required.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• EKG Telemetry Monitoring course required.

Physical Requirements

Weight Demands

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

Physical Activity

• Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
  • Climbing
  • Crawling
  • Kneeling
  • Sitting
• Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
  • Balancing
  • Carrying
  • Crouching
  • Distinguish colors
  • Keyboarding/typing
  • Lifting
  • Pulling/Pushing
  • Repetitive Motions
  • Standing
  • Stooping/bending
  • Twisting
  • Walking
• Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
  • Fingering/Touching
  • Grasping
  • Hearing
  • Reaching
  • Seeing/Visual
  • Speaking/talking

Job Hazards

• Not Related:
  • Explosives (pressurized gas)
  • Electrical Shock/Static
  • Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
  • Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
• Rare (1-33%):
  • Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
  • Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
• Occasionally (34%-66%):
  • Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) Blood or Body Fluid (BBF)
  • Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
  • Equipment/Machinery/Tools

About Methodist:

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

Nebraska Methodist Health System is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by Federal, state or local law.