Cardio Pulmonary Rehab Nurse (RN)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Others duties may be assigned.

• Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab:
  • May be asked to develop and teach educational and/or exercise group classes
• Monitor, support, and educate patients in Cardiac Rehab
• Critical Thinking: Must use assessing skills along with monitoring system to keep patients safe.
• Communication with Cardiologist: Provide updates when requested and call with concerns.
• Patient Education: Education requirements must be met to meet protocol for rehab patients. 
• Exercise Titration: Understanding how to safely increase workload on heart and lungs to improve function, titration is per individual on an as tolerated basis agreed upon by physician.
• Multi-tasking: Must be able to provide appropriate care to more than one patient at a time.
• Cardiovascular Knowledge: Must have at least basic cardiovascular knowledge and willingness to learn. 
• Pulmonary Knowledge: Must have at least basic pulmonary knowledge and willingness to learn. 

• Cardiology and Pulmonology Clinic:
  • Learning Epic EMR that is used by cardiologists with UCHealth
• Pre clinic: Gathering pertinent information on patients scheduled for upcoming clinics, Abstract (prepare ahead) a consulting patient’s chart in Epic.  Make sure any orders placed at previous appointments have been done and results are available/scanned into cardiology system.
• Clinic: Rooming patients, obtaining vital signs, checking medications and pertinent history and adding to chart prior to the Provider seeing them.  Enter orders and schedule appointments for any ordered tests and obtain follow up instructions from Provider, perform EKGs when ordered.
• Post Clinic: Make sure orders are put in or faxed to be done elsewhere and added to the prior authorization spreadsheet, med reconciliation, follow up appointments scheduled and future orders placed.  Call patients with test results.

• Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics:
  • Stress Tests: including routine treadmill stress tests, Nuclear Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Stress tests (both pharmacological and exercise), and Stress Echo.
  • Scheduling, chart prepping, calling patients with pre stress instructions, consenting, starting IVs, performing stress tests with provider and nuc med or echo tech as well as result distribution to ordering facility and patient notification of result.
  • Echocardiography responsibilities to include assisting with orders and charges, assisting with IVs and contrast and bubble study, assisting with test result distribution
  • Performing 6 min walk tests to qualify patients for oxygen
  • Placement of cardiac event monitors (holter and zio), registering, and result distribution.

• Other Duties:
  • Will need to assist patience with applying for medication financial assistance from drug companies.
  • Will need to do medication requisition after clinics to ensure accuracy of med lists across the different EMRs to ensure continuity of care
  • May need to assist with policies and procedures writing and updating.
  • May be asked to obtain applicable certifications and attend pertinent educational classes which may on occasion require travel.