Position Summary:

Responsible for coordinating and performing patient cardiac stress testing, Holter monitoring, Cardiac Event monitoring, and EKG services. This will include patient instruction, education, procedure setup, and review testing data. Employees will follow hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and standards of care.

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

       1.      Review and interpret patient laboratory results and medical record history prior to stress testing.

       2.      Perform all department exercise and pharmacologic testing studies, including: explaining procedures/significance/safety precautions, instructing patient, administering medication for pharmacologic testing, monitoring patient vitals, utilizing necessary equipment to produce accurate EKG tracings, interpreting EKG, recognizing and identifying abnormal rhythms/cardiac issues during testing.

       3.      Works efficiently with other departments and correlates exams as a team.

       4.      Communicates with Cardiologist overseeing cardiac stress testing and consults when required.

       5.      Set up, instruct patient, review data obtained from Holter monitoring and Cardiac Event monitoring.

       6.      Generate testing reports for physician interpretation.

       7.      Enter appropriate data/information into electronic medical record.

       8.      Process paperwork for billing purposes.

        9.  Seeks to improve quality of service by continuously developing individual and departmental competencies within scope of practice.

       10.  All other job-related tasks.

Qualifications:

Required:

      1.      Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science or Physiology

      2.      BLS and ACLS certified within 30 days of hire.

Preferred:

Certification through the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP) Additional Information Schedule: Part-time Requisition ID: 24001088 Daily Work Times: 8-430 Hours Per Pay Period: 64 On Call: No Weekends: No