Pulmo Rehab Specialist

About the Role

We are staffing respiratory care practitioners (full time, part time, or consultant basis) for our pulmonary health and rehabilitation program. In this role, you will implement respiratory regimens and assist with pulmonary participant support as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing expertise to offer comprehensive treatment strategies for positive participant outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with rehab team members about individual patient findings, concerns, and program improvement issues.
• Strive toward proficiency in clinical competencies and demonstrate interpersonal and observational skills to identify psycho-social adaptation to illness or psychopathology (e.g., depression, anger, excessive anxiety).
• Assess patients' modifiable risk factors and offer support and strategies for successful therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC).
• Utilize contemporary theories of health behavior change to help participants identify learning and lifestyle modification goals.
• Participate in the program's educational efforts, classes, and/or individual sessions.
• Assist in the initial assessment and orientation of new participants and the development of individualized treatment plans with other staff members.
• Apply knowledge of exercise science to a population with pulmonary disease and other potential co-morbidities.
• Develop and adjust individual exercise prescriptions based on GXT, daily patient response in rehab, and physician recommendations.
• Supervise exercise sessions, monitoring participants for inappropriate responses to exercise.
• Perform oximetry, heart rate, and blood pressure measurements, and assess participants pre, during, and post-exercise, making appropriate referrals or recommendations.
• Observe telemetry responses when indicated and document initial and daily assessment data in participant records.
• Immediately report any new, changing, or significant participant conditions (e.g., oxygen desaturation, dysrhythmias, abnormal blood pressure responses) to the supervising physician.
• Initiate ACLS measures and/or emergency care according to hospital policy.
• Participate in the collection, analysis, and reporting of individual patient outcomes and program outcomes.
• Stay current in the field of pulmonary rehabilitation through journals, in-services, and conferences.
• Participate in emergency drills and mock codes on a routine basis.
• Attend all scheduled staff meetings.