Cardiac Monitor Technician

Socket.dev; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks a Telemetry Technician to monitor and interpret basic cardiac rhythms in a hospital setting in Tampa, FL. You will perform 12-lead EKGs, document rhythm strips, and communicate significant findings to nursing staff while maintaining equipment and alarms.

Candidate should have a High School Diploma or GED and BLS certification. This on-site role emphasizes accurate documentation, patient safety, and teamwork with biomedical and clinical teams.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• BLS certification required.
• Experience interpreting monitoring data preferred.
• Ability to accurately record rhythm strips.

Responsibilities

• Accurately interprets changes in rhythms.
• Records rhythm strips as required.
• Maintains alarms to minimize false alarms.
• Identifies individual EKGs with proper identifiers.
• Communicates lethal arrhythmias to nursing staff.

Skills

Rhythm interpretation

EKG lead monitoring

Alarm management

Documentation

Staff communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Tools

Telemetry monitors

Job description

Under general supervision, follows established policies, procedures, and professional guidelines. Responsible for monitoring and identifying basic normal cardiac rhythms, dysrhythmias, and lethal arrhythmias; reporting these findings to the appropriate personnel, and rhythm documentation and labeling per TGH policy. Promotes and maintains patient support including but not limited to: interprets and post rhythm strips and protocol, performs 12 lead EKGs. Maintain and clean portable telemetry monitors between patient use according to manufacturer's guidelines.

Essential Functions

• Accurately interprets changes in rhythms.
• Records rhythm strips as required.
• Demonstrates arrhythmia recognition skills.
• Communicates lethal arrhythmias to nursing staff and documents strips as requested.
• Maintains alarms on at all times with rates set safely to minimize false alarms.
• Identifies individual EKGs with proper patient identifiers.
• Works with the computer system, including Maintains flow through the ER and facilitatetransfers, admissions and discharges timely.
• Answers telephone and intercom in a pleasant and professional manner and relays messageaccurately and quickly.
• Reports any malfunction of monitoring equipment to the Biomedical Technicians, ChargeNurse, and Nursing Director

Education

• High School Diploma or GED

Certification

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association or American Red Cross

Work Experience

• Basic EKG class and demonstration of competency through testing