About the Job
General Summary of Position ---------------------------
Monitors patients on the telemetry consoles.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities -----------------------------------
• Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards. • Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations. • Documents rhythm every two hours on EKG flow sheet. • Immediately reports any change in cardiac rhythm to the nurse. • Obtains strips of irregularities. • Maintains charge requisitions on monitored patients. • Makes nursing personnel aware of the need for replacement of patient electrodes and/or newly monitored patients to be connected. • Maintains safe and effective operation of the Monitoring Console at all times. • Ensures that paper loaders are full. • Monitors assigned telemetry console. • Obtains monitor strips at the start of each shift, interprets strip, puts date and time on each strip, and places it on flow sheet. • Provides a verbal report to relief persons and gives a patient report to oncoming technicians. • Verifies and adjusts alarm limits as established for the levels appropriate to the individual patient. • Verifies alarms are on at all times.
Participates in multi-disciplinary quality and service improvement teams.
Minimal Qualifications ---------------------
Education ------------
• High School Diploma or GED required or equivalent.
Experience ------------
• Less than 1 year 6 months experience with emergency situations and maintaining continuous strips of cardiac rhythms required.
Licenses and Certifications ---------------------------
• Completion of the Monitor Technician Program.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities -------------------------------
• Verbal and written communication skills. • Basic computer skills preferred.
Hiring Range -------------
This position has a hiring range of USD $18.00 - USD $29.74 /Hr.