Exercise Physiologist

Essential Functions:

• Evaluates patients' functional abilities and limitations to determine appropriate intervention.
• Implements individualized exercise plans that consider patient's physical and age-specific needs and abilities. Ensures that treatment plans are supported by standard practices and/or current literature.
• Re-evaluates treatment plan, as needed, to ensure patient safety and maximal patient benefit.
• Educates patients, family members, and other care providers to promote patient participation and attainment of exercise program goals.
• Responsible for patient safety including recognizing cardiac arrhythmias and responding according to emergency protocols utilizing life saving skills and obtaining medical equipment.
• Maintains operational knowledge of exercise equipment with ability to troubleshoot this equipment.
• Possesses competency in the use of equipment for treatment and deriving exercise and lifestyle improvement strategies
• Demonstrates competency in exercise protocol selection and risk stratification classification in patient assessment and rehabilitation.
• Possesses the ability to perform technical skills, which may include any of the following: venipuncture, blood pressure monitoring at rest and exercise, skinfold assessments, circumference measures, advanced EKG interpretation and monitoring, pulse oximetry and metabolic measures.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of exercise prescription, exercise counseling and exercise education and setting of exercise goals that will best serve the needs of the patient.
• Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and proper functioning of equipment.
• Creates and/or modifies policies regarding the delivery of patient care and services related to exercise testing, prescription and supervision.

Common Expectations:

• Demonstrates a commitment to patient, visitor and staff by: complying with all applicable safety regulations; learning the impact of medical errors and methodology that will lead to reduction of errors; reporting actual and potential errors, as well as hazardous conditions; identifying opportunities to standardize processes and "error proof" systems that will lead to increased safety; and participating in safety education programs and root cause analyses as required.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment, safety, environmental and infection control standards, cleans equipment.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.