Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

Centennial Hills Hospital is a member of The Valley Health System, a network of six acute care hospitals that provide care for patients throughout Southern Nevada and nearby communities. Located in northwest Las Vegas, the 336-bed hospital offers a wide range of healthcare services including emergency care, surgical services, cardiovascular and neurological care, women's health, maternity and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, and specialty programs in stroke, chest pain, orthopedics, advanced wound care and hyperbaric medicine, and outpatient physical therapy.

Job Description: Responsible for assessing, organizing, coordinating, implementing, instructing, and evaluating specific outpatient educational and rehabilitation programs related to cardiac rehab. Responsible for sales and marketing efforts to ensure continued business growth across CHH outpatient and subacute service lines with key physicians, post-acute providers, payers and community organizations including community events such as health fairs.

Qualifications

Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or AMA approved respiratory therapy program. Masters Degree preferred.

Experience: Five (5) or more years experience working in a healthcare setting. Must be familiar with mangaging hospital services in both inpatient and outpatient setting. Experience managing budgets, productivity and departmental expenses. Advanced knowledge of exercise physiology, nutrition, risk factor modification strategies, counseling techniques, and uses of behavioral change programs and technologies as applied to cardiac rehab. One year in adult respiratory/ nursing preferred. Experience in program development and management recommended.

Technical Skills: Demonstrate a working knowledge of the current AACVPR guidelines and recommendations.

License/Certification: Current unrestricted professional license/registration as required by the State of Nevada. (RN licence or Nevada Practitioner of Respiratory Care License and current Nevada Blood Gas Technologist or general supervisor license. Current BCLS Certification, ACLS certification.)

Other: Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide education appropriate to the age and needs of the patients served in the outpatient environment with chronic disease processes. Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care/service appropriate to the age of the patients served in the assigned department.