Exercise Physiologist

About the Role

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

Responsibilities

• Develops exercise prescription and oversees exercise progression in patients (often with cardiovascular or pulmonary disease) within a rehabilitation setting.
• Provides exercise prescription for patients utilizing test data, patient status, and current medication regimen; updates prescription according to the patient's response.
• Provides patient testing before and after rehabilitation including strength, body composition, flexibility, balance, and endurance.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Physiology, Kinesiology, Exercise Science, or a health-related field.
• Completion of internship in a Cardiopulmonary Rehab program.

Physical Requirements

• Constant standing.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more).
• Frequent walking, reaching, gripping, and keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, sitting, squatting, twisting, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving patients.
• Occasional use of vision to judge distances and spatial relationships and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling.

Certifications

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA).

State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay for eligible hourly team members to access earned, unpaid base pay before payday (fees may apply).
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

Worker Type: PRN (as needed).