Pulmo Rehab Specialist

Responsibilities

• Implements the respiratory regimen and assists with pulmonary participant support.
• Contributes expertise as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to offer comprehensive treatment strategies.
• Communicates effectively with rehab team members about individual patient findings or concerns and about program improvement issues.
• Demonstrates ability to strive toward proficiency in the clinical competencies.
• Demonstrates interpersonal and observational skills needed to effectively identify appropriate psycho-social adaptation to illness and/or the presence of psychopathology.
• Affords support and strategies to aid patient in successful therapeutic lifestyle changes.
• Utilizes contemporary theories of health behavior change in helping participants identify learning and lifestyle modification goals.
• Participates in the program's educational efforts, classes, and/or individual sessions.
• Assists in the development of individualized treatment plans with other staff members.
• Applies knowledge of exercise science to a population with pulmonary disease and other potential co-morbidities.
• Develops and adjusts individual exercise prescription in accordance with GXT, daily patient response in rehab, and physician recommendations.
• Serves as supervisor of exercise sessions, monitoring participants for inappropriate responses to exercise.
• Performs oximetry, heart rate, and blood pressure measurements.
• Affords assessments pre, during, and post exercise, making appropriate referrals, and/or recommendations to the participant, other staff, and Medical Director.
• Monitors telemetry responses, when indicated.
• Documents initial and daily assessment data in participant records.
• Reports any new, changing, and/or significant participant conditions immediately to the physician supervising the program.
• Initiates ACLS measures and/or emergency care according to hospital policy.
• Collects, analyzes, and reports identified individual patient outcomes and program outcomes.
• Keeps current in the field of pulmonary rehabilitation through journals, in-services, and conferences.
• Participates in emergency drills and mock codes on a routine basis.
• Attends all scheduled staff meetings.