Cardiac Telemetry Monitor Technician

Memorial Healthcare System; Florida; On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida, seeks a Monitor Technician to support telemetry monitoring, recognize arrhythmias, and alert the care team to changes in patient status.

Under RN supervision, you will document ECG tracings, attach electrodes, and help ensure patient safety by recording readings and initiating rapid responses when needed. This role emphasizes attention to detail and patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Vocation Technical: Electrocardiogram Competency (Required)
• BLS American Heart E-Card (BLS AHA ECARD) - American Heart Association (AMERICAN HEART)
• BLS Certification Grace (BLS GRACE) - Employee Grace Period for Essential Credential (GRACE)
• BLS Cert Red Cross (BLS RC) - Red Cross (RED CROSS)

Responsibilities

• Documents the electrocardiograph tracings of patients on telemetry monitors.
• Identifies arrhythmias, deviation in each patient's baseline, signs of patient deterioration, and intervenes to ensure patient safety.
• Reports abnormal or change in patient's telemetry monitoring to nursing staff or immediate supervisor or designated chain of command.
• Identifies and corrects for artifacts.
• Attaches electrode to patients' bodies to record electrical impulses from the heart to perform continuous ECG Monitoring.
• Performs continual and simultaneous surveillance for the operation of complex cardiac monitoring systems, including ECG rhythm screens, computerized dysrhythmia detection system and rhythm printers.
• Activates emergency response or rapid response for lethal arrhythmia or cardiac arrest.
• Records information in patient's log and maintains accurate, neat account of patient's cardiac monitoring status during episode of care.
• Identifies and records patient's rhythm and changes in patient rhythm and condition.
• Updates patient's records with all readings taken from the heart monitor or EKGs.

Skills

Telemetry monitoring

ECG interpretation

Critical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Electrocardiogram Competency

BLS Certification

Job description

Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida, seeks a Monitor Technician to support telemetry monitoring, recognize arrhythmias, and alert the care team to changes in patient status.

Under RN supervision, you will document ECG tracings, attach electrodes, and help ensure patient safety by recording readings and initiating rapid responses when needed. This role emphasizes attention to detail and patient-centered care.