Description
The Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehab Therapist supports Cardiac and/or Pulmonary Rehabilitation by assisting with patient monitoring, implementation of prescribed exercise programs, and basic patient education.
This role collaborates with the multidisciplinary care team to promote safe exercise participation, accurate documentation, and positive patient outcomes in a structured rehabilitation setting.
Essential Functions
- Demonstrates foundational knowledge of exercise principles for Cardiac and/or Pulmonary Rehabilitation and develops understanding of departmental policies, protocols, and procedures.
- Obtains and records patient information including medical history, medications, vital signs, and observed symptoms.
- Monitors patients during exercise sessions, recognizing changes in physiological or subjective response, and promptly reports concerns to supervising clinical staff.
- Executes prescribed exercise programs as directed, assisting patients with appropriate equipment, workloads, and modalities.
- Assists with and develops working knowledge of functional capacity testing.
- Functions as a member of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, supporting day-to-day delivery of disease-specific exercise and lifestyle interventions.
- Provides basic patient education and coaching, reinforcing safe exercise practices and lifestyle modification principles.
- Assists with inpatient mobility and activities of daily living per delegated plans of care.
- Documents patient participation, observations, and clinical data accurately and timely.
- Participates in patient safety, quality improvement activities, equipment safety checks, and other duties as assigned.
Skills
- Clinical assessment and monitoring
- EKG interpretation
- Symptom recognition
- Exercise programming
- Patient education and coaching
- Communication
- Patient Records
- Documentation
- Care coordination
- Technical proficiency with rehab equipment, telemetry systems, and clinical tools
Minimum Qualifications
- Actively enrolled in a bachelor’s program in Exercise Physiology, Exercise Science, or Kinesiology.
- Successfully completes a formal EKG interpretation and arrhythmia detection course within 6 months of hire.
- Basic clinical monitoring skills and foundational exercise instruction skills.
- Patient communication and education skills.
- Basic computer skills and ability to learn electronic documentation systems.
- Ability to work effectively on a team and follow directions from clinical staff.
- Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS-HCP)
Preferred Qualifications
- Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employees to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Expected to lift and utilize a full range of movements to transfer patients.
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment.
Location: Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital Work City: Provo Work State: Utah Scheduled Weekly Hours: 20 Hourly Range: $24.30 - $37.52