Full-Time Monitor Technician

UPMC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC is seeking a Full-Time Monitor Technician for the Cardiac Monitoring Center at UPMC Passavant. The role supports patient care by monitoring cardiac activity, managing tracings, and maintaining accuracy in data entry and billing.

This position involves rotating shifts including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays to ensure continuous patient coverage. The ideal candidate will handle cross-training duties, maintain CPR certification, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to

Responsibilities

• Promotes and maintains positive relationships and patient confidentiality.
• Shows knowledge of diagnostic instrumentation and troubleshooting.
• If cross trained, conducts transtelephonic pacemaker testing with scheduling and billing.
• Maintains CPR certification after orientation; attends in-service education.
• Available to cover subsequent shifts if staffing is inadequate.
• Manages ECG tracing/order matching in computerized systems and uploads to EMR; completes ECG/Holter billing.
• Explains examinations to patients and staff; collects brief history and prepares patients for Holter studies.
• Supports peers and manages daily workload to expedite procedures.
• Cleans equipment daily; stocks supplies and reports needs for service/repair.
• Delivers ECGs and Holter requests; can move ECG machines on carts to different areas.
• Monitors multiple cardiac screens with high accuracy for rhythm changes and alarms.
• If cross trained, scans Holter tapes for dysrhythmia recognition and classification.

Job description

Join Our Community!

Are you passionate about the patient experience and seeking growth opportunities? UPMC is dedicated to providing each patient with the right care, in the right way, at the right time, every time. Our Monitor Technicians are essential partners in that mission, enhancing the patient experience at UPMC with positivity and integrity. Join us as we provide Life Changing Medicine to our community.

Position: Full-Time Monitor Technician

Department: Cardiac Monitoring Center

Location: UPMC Passavant

Shifts: 36 hours per week; rotating shifts, including evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts

* Title and salary will be determined based upon education and patient care experience.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and maintains desired public, interpersonal, and interdepartmental relationships and patient confidentiality.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of the physical and electronic character of the diagnostic instrumentation used and must demonstrate equipment troubleshooting skills.
• If cross trained, conducts transtelephonic pacemaker function testing including scheduling and billing components.
• Responsible for personal job skill development and maintaining clinical expertise. Maintains certification in CPR once oriented. Attends in-service education and skill development courses as offered.
• Is available to cover subsequent shift if staffing is inadequate.
• Accurately manages ECG tracing/order matching in computerized equipment for physician on line reading and upload to electronic medical record. Completes billing for technical component of ECGs and Holters.
• Explains the nature and rationale of examinations to patients/hospital personnel in understandable terms. Completes a brief patient history prior to Holter monitor procedures. Properly positions the patient to perform the exam and make any specific preparations required to assure thoroughness and accuracy of the study.
• Supports peer personnel in daily work assignments maintaining a constant awareness of the nature and volume of work and takes necessary actions to expedite completion of procedures.
• Cleans equipment on a daily basis. Stocks supply areas and distributes inventory. Notifies key personnel or manager of need for supplies and reports need for equipment service and repair to manager or bio-med medical department.
• Responsible for receiving and accurately completing and processing requests for ECGs and Holter monitors. Ability to push ECGs machines on carts with wheels in order to perform studies in various areas throughout the hospital.
• Provides visual surveillance of numerous cardiac monitors simultaneously while maintaining 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular or atrial ectopic, normal or unknown). Maintains alarms per policy. Recognizes and immediately notifies appropriate hospital personnel of changes in a patient's rhythm or life threatening dysrhythmia and documents changes on patient record system.
• If cross trained, scans Holter monitor tapes with 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular and atrial ectopic, pacemaker, normal and unknown).

Note

Note: All competencies must be achieved. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions associated with the role.