Travel Physiologist
Las Vegas, Nevada
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Exercise Physiologist (Sports Medicine), Travel/Contract

• Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Schedule: Day shift, 5 x 8-hour days (8:00 to 17:00), 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Provide care to adults using appropriate assessment and interview techniques, addressing their psychosocial, physical, and educational needs, and modify testing for adult responses.
• Verify physician orders and perform ACSM/ACC/AHA-guideline testing for scheduled patients and add-on emergency patients.
• Conduct pre-test interviews, determine test endpoints, and perform additional physiologic assessments as needed (e.g., metabolic testing, oximetry).
• Inspect, clean, calibrate, and maintain equipment per ACSM/ACC/AHA guidelines.
• Serve as a resource to the cardiologist for patient education and troubleshooting exercise and cardiac risk factor issues.
• Communicate negative stress results to patients promptly and effectively.
• Assist cardiology staff with research and quality improvement projects as assigned.
• Maintain complete, up-to-date documentation at all times, including product and service quotes.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• At least 1 year of experience as a physiologist, with physiologist experience within the last year.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Required training in graded exercise testing, EKG analysis and interpretation, cardiovascular exercise physiology, and cardiac rehabilitation principles. No degree is required.