Pulmo Rehab Specialist

Lincare; Hugoton (KS); Presencial; USD 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Lincare's pulmonary health and rehabilitation program is seeking staff to implement respiratory regimens and support participants across full-time, part-time, or consultant roles.

The team collaborates to deliver comprehensive treatment, assess risks, and guide lifestyle changes while engaging in educational activities and regular program improvements.

Responsabilidades

• Contributes expertise as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to offer comprehensive treatment strategies to provide positive outcomes for individual participants and for the pulmonary health and rehabilitation program
• Communicates effectively with rehab team members about participant findings or concerns and about program improvement issues
• Demonstrates willingness to strive toward proficiency in clinical competencies
• Demonstrates interpersonal and observational skills to identify psychosocial adaptation issues or psychopathology
• Assesses participants' modifiable risk factors and offers support for therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC)
• Understands and uses health behavior change theories to help participants set learning and lifestyle goals
• Participates in program education efforts, classes, and/or individual sessions
• Participates in initial assessment and orientation of new participants; assists in developing individualized treatment plans
• Applies exercise science knowledge to a pulmonary population and co-morbidities
• Develops and adjusts exercise prescriptions based on GXT and participant response and physician recommendations
• Supervises exercise sessions and monitors responses to exercise
• Measures oximetry, heart rate, and blood pressure
• Assesses participants pre, during, and post exercise and refers as needed
• Observes telemetry when indicated
• Documents initial and daily assessment data in participant records
• Reports significant participant conditions to the supervising physician
• Initiates ACLS measures and/or emergency care per hospital policy
• Participates in data collection, analysis and reporting of outcomes
• Keeps current in the field through journals and conferences
• Participates in emergency drills and staff meetings

Descrição da vaga

The pulmonary health and rehabilitation program will staff (full time, part time, or consultant basis) respiratory care practitioners who will be responsible for implementing the respiratory regimen and assisting with pulmonary participant support.

• Contributes expertise as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to offer comprehensive treatment strategies to provide positive outcomes for individual participants and for the pulmonary health and rehabilitation program
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively with rehab team members about individual patient findings or concerns and about program improvement issues
• Demonstrates a willingness to strive toward proficiency in the clinical competencies
• Demonstrates the interpersonal and observational skills needed to effectively identify appropriate psycho social adaptation to illness and/or the presence of psychopathology (e.g., depression, anger, excessive anxiety, etc.)
• Assesses patients' risk factors that are modifiable and demonstrates ability to offer support and strategies to aid patient in successful therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC)
• Understands and 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
• Participates in the initial assessment and orientation of new participants
  • Assists in the development of individualized treatment plans with other staff members
• Effectively 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 on a regular basis
• Supervises exercise session, monitoring participants for inappropriate responses to exercise
• Responsible for oximetry, heart rate, and blood pressure measurement
• Assesses participants pre, during, and post exercise, making appropriate referrals, and/or recommendations to the participant, other staff, and Medical Director
• Responsible for observation of telemetry responses, when indicated
• Documents initial and daily assessment data in participant records
• Immediately reports any new, changing, and/or significant participant conditions (oxygen desaturation, dysrhythmias, abnormal blood pressure responses, change in participants' status, etc.) to the physician supervising the program
• Initiates ACLS measures and/or emergency care according to hospital policy
• Participates in the collection, analysis, and reporting of 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