Job description
About Us
McLaren Health Care is a fully integrated health network committed to quality, evidence-based patient care with locations in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals in Michigan and Ohio, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S.
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:
Review and interpret patient laboratory results and medical record history prior to stress testing.
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.
Works efficiently with other departments and correlates exams as a team.
Communicates with Cardiologist overseeing cardiac stress testing and consults when required.
Set up, instruct patient, review data obtained from Holter monitoring and Cardiac Event monitoring.
Generate testing reports for physician interpretation.
Enter appropriate data/information into electronic medical record.
Process paperwork for billing purposes.
Respond and assist during hospital-wide emergency situations (rapid response/code teams).
Seeks to improve quality of service by continuously developing individual and departmental competencies within scope of practice.
All other job-related tasks.
Lead Essential Functions and Responsibilities (If classified in a Lead Role):
Assist in quality control and performance improvement activities.
Contributes to performance feedback, hiring decisions.
Ensure standards are met (quality, timeliness, customer service, etc.)
Evaluates and tests new procedures/processes.
Orients and trains new staff.
Problem solving capabilities.
Subject matter expert/technical leadership.
Workflow distribution.
Assists in assuring compliance with all regulatory and other agency requirements, laws, and statutes pertaining to the operation of the department.
- Bachelor's degree in exercise science or physiology.
- BLS certified.
Preferred:
- Certification through the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP).
- Master's degree.
- Schedule: Full-time
- Requisition ID: 23002166
- Daily Work Times: 8:30am - 5:00pm
- Hours Per Pay Period: 72
- On Call: No
- Weekends: No
Per Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations, all McLaren employees must be vaccinated for COVID-19 by January 4, 2022. The regulation permits exemptions for employees with qualified medical disabilities or religious beliefs.
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
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