Pulmo Rehab Specialist

Lincare Holdings; Lockney (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Medical coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Referral program

Other benefits

Job summary

Lincare Holdings seeks respiratory care practitioners for a pulmonary health and rehabilitation program. Staff may be full time, part time, or consultant-based to implement respiratory regimens and support participants.

The role emphasizes collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team, patient-focused care, and ongoing program improvement. CPR/ACLS-certification and state licensure are required, with the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Qualifications

• Desire to work within a comprehensive health care team.
• Commitment to a healthy lifestyle as a model to participants and staff.
• Twenty-four (24) months recent and relevant experience
• Current CPR and ACLS certification
• Current registration or certification in state of practice
• Specialization or certification in cardiopulmonary clinical area
• Must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Responsibilities

• Contributes expertise as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to offer comprehensive treatment strategies to provide positive outcomes for participants and the program.
• Communicates effectively with rehab team members about patient findings or concerns and about program improvement issues.
• Strives toward proficiency in clinical competencies.
• Identifies psychosocial adaptation to illness and potential psychopathology as part of participant care.
• Assesses modifiable risk factors and supports therapeutic lifestyle changes.
• Applies health behavior change theories to help participants set goals.
• Participates in program education efforts, classes and sessions.
• Assists in initial assessment and orientation of new participants and helps develop individualized treatment plans.
• Applies exercise science knowledge to a pulmonary rehab population and co-morbidities.
• Develops and adjusts exercise prescriptions based on GXT, daily response, and physician recommendations.
• Supervises exercise sessions and monitors responses.
• Measures oximetry, heart rate, and blood pressure.
• Assesses during and after exercise and makes referrals as needed.
• Observes telemetry when indicated and reports significant changes to the supervising physician.
• Documents initial and daily assessment data.
• Reports new or changing conditions promptly to the physician.
• Initiates ACLS or emergency care per hospital policy.
• Participates in data collection and reporting of patient and program outcomes.
• Keeps current in the field through journals, in-services, and conferences.
• Participates in emergency drills and staff meetings.

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Desire to work within a comprehensive health care team
• Commitment to a healthy lifestyle as a model to participants and staff
• Twenty-four (24) months recent and relevant experience
• Current CPR and ACLS certification
• Current registration or certification in state of practice
• Specialization or certification in cardiopulmonary clinical area
• must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Benefits

• ongoing training and advancement opportunities
• comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• paid time off
• retirement savings
• tuition reimbursement
• other benefits
• generous employee referral program
• wide array of employee discounts