# Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehab Therapist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Ogden, Utah
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $24.30 - $37.52
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## 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.

**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.

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment.

- Expected to lift and utilise 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 Layton Hospital, Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital

**Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 20

**Hourly Rate:** $24.30 - $37.52

## Skills

### Required
- EKG interpretation
- clinical assessment and monitoring
- symptom recognition
- exercise programming
- patient education and coaching
- communication
- patient records
- documentation
- care coordination
- technical proficiency

### Nice to have
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

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