Card Rehab RN

Job Details

Job Location:

Harrisonville, MO 64701

Position Type:
Part Time

Job Shift: Day - Cardiac Rehab RN position, 26 hours/week, required to work Monday (10 hrs), Wednesdays (10 hrs) and Fridays (6 hrs).

• Primary
  
  Purpose:
  
  To provide quality patient care while following all the standards of care and maintaining a safe environment for individuals with both known and a strong potential risk for developing cardiac disease.
• Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: Formally responsible for providing input into policies associated with the job’s purpose and essential responsibilities.
• Routine Decision Making: Evaluation of physical changes, vital signs and weight gain which require follow-up care or treatment; evaluate patients' tolerance and the need to advance or decrease exercise METS; evaluate cardiac monitor for changes; and evaluate new potential participants level of readiness to enter the Cardiac Rehab program.
• Formal Supervisory Responsibility: No formal supervisory responsibility.
• Required Knowledge: Recognition of life‑threatening cardiac dysrhythmias; cardiac disease knowledge which include normal and abnormal findings and treatments; exercise prescription for various disease and physical restrictions; education material to share with public and participants; insurance requirements; and the Telemetry Monitoring System’s information and procedure, troubleshooting of equipment, use of ACLS equipment.
• Required Skills and Ability: Ability to use telemetry monitoring system, understanding of and ability to instruct patients in use in general office equipment including treadmills, stationary bicycles, Nu‑step, Arm Ergometer, Portable 02; glucometers, free weights and other prescribed gym equipment, Interacts professionally and enthusiastically with patients and family members.
• Unusual
  
  Working Conditions:
  
  Risk of blood, body fluid contamination.
• Age Specific
  
  Competencies:
  
  Provides care for adult patients between 18 to 64 years; and geriatric patients 65 years and older.

• Education and Certification/ Registration required for the Position:
  Two to four‑year RN degree; currently licensed in the state of Missouri; ACLS/BLS required. Experience in critical care or experience with cardiac dysrhythmias preferred.