Cardiac Rehab Coordinator

This position involves extensive coordination, planning, and evaluating patients and community members with diagnosed heart failure or symptoms of heart failure. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will provide rounding onpatients hospitalized with diagnoses of CHF or potential for CHF or signs and symptoms thereof. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will gather information to ensure that the Core measures for quality for this patient diagnosisare achieved.

The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator for Heart Failure will coordinate education for staff caring forpatients with heart failure and provide community education lectures. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator willcommunicate effectively with physicians involved in the care of these patients. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will chair the Heart Failure multidisciplinary team.

As needed plan and provide cardiac and pulmonaryrehabilitative care to the patient while assuring patient safety. Also responsible for conducting an individual needs assessment; planning, implementing and monitoring the patient's exercise prescription and risk-factor reduction plan. This treatment of care is aimed to improve both physical function, general well-being, and prognosis while promoting independent seif-management through education.

This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of Anaheim Regionai Medical Center. It is expected that the employee demonstrate behavior consistent with the core values of A. RMC.

The employee shall support Anaheim Regional Medical Center's strategic plan and goals and direction of the performance improvement plan. The employee will also be expected to support all organizational expectationsinciuding, but not limited to; Customer Service, Patient's Rights, Confidentiality of Information, Environment of Care and MemorialCare initiatives. Responsibilities This position involves extensive coordination, planning, and evaluating patients and community members with diagnosed heart failure or symptoms of heart failure.

The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will provide rounding onpatients hospitalized with diagnoses of CHF or potential for CHF or signs and symptoms thereof. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will gather information to ensure that the Core measures for quality for this patient diagnosisare achieved. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator for Heart Failure will coordinate education for staff caring forpatients with heart failure and provide community education lectures.

The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator willcommunicate effectively with physicians involved in the care of these patients. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will chair the Heart Failure multidisciplinary team. As needed plan and provide cardiac and pulmonaryrehabilitative care to the patient while assuring patient safety.

Also responsible for conducting an individual needs assessment; planning, implementing and monitoring the patient's exercise prescription and risk-factor reduction plan. This treatment of care is aimed to improve both physical function, general well-being, and prognosis while promoting independent seif-management through education. This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of Anaheim Regionai Medical Center.

It is expected that the employee demonstrate behavior consistent with the core values of A. RMC. The employee shall support Anaheim Regional Medical Center's strategic plan and goals and direction of the performance improvement plan.

The employee will also be expected to support all organizational expectationsinciuding, but not limited to; Customer Service, Patient's Rights, Confidentiality of Information, Environment of Care and MemorialCare initiatives. Qualifications EDUCATION/TRAINING/EXPERIENCERN from accredited nursing program preferred3 years clinica! health care or health education experience preferredEffective oral and written communication skillsDemonstrates ability to provide individual and large group counseling sessionsExperience in cardiology nursingExperience with data collectionBLSLICENSES/CERTIFICATIONSCurrent CA RN license preferred

Day shift