Monitor Tech

St Joseph Health; Bryan (TX); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

St Joseph Health in Bryan, Texas is seeking a Monitor Tech to oversee patients' cardiac rhythms, ensuring accurate detection and reporting of changes. You will meticulously monitor EKG strips, communicate vital findings to healthcare staff, and maintain telemetry equipment.

The successful candidate should possess observational skills and a solid understanding of cardiac rhythms, along with appropriate certifications. Join a leading healthcare provider in the Brazos Valley committed to community care since 1936.

Qualifications

• Must have graduated from an accredited EKG Technician Program.
• CPR certification must be completed within 14 days of hire.
• One year of relevant experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Continuously observe monitored EKG patterns.
• Set up, calibrate, and maintain telemetry settings.
• Identify changes in patient cardiac rhythms and notify RN.
• Troubleshoot telemetry equipment and ensure they function properly.
• Assist in answering phones and maintain cleanliness of transmitters.

Skills

Observational skills

Understanding of cardiac rhythms

Ability to act under pressure

Education

Graduate from an accredited EKG Technician Program

Basic Life Support - CPR certification

Job description

Overview

Job Summary and Responsibilities: As a Monitor Tech, you will be responsible for continuous observation and analysis of patients' cardiac rhythms to detect and report changes. Every day you will meticulously monitor EKG strips, identify arrhythmias, measure intervals, and promptly communicate critical findings to nursing staff and healthcare providers, ensuring accurate documentation. To be successful, you will demonstrate sharp observational skills, a thorough understanding of cardiac rhythms, and the ability to act quickly and precisely under pressure, crucial for patient safety and timely intervention.

Responsibilities

• Continuous observation of monitored EKG patterns and pulse oximetry as ordered. Sets up, calibrates and Maintains settings and alarms on telemetry module. Obtains rhythm strip at beginning of shift, on admission and whenever changes occur. Labels strip with patient identification, time, lead monitored, PR interval, ST interval, QRS interval
• Trouble shoots telemetry equipment, Ensures monitors are functioning properly, ensure telemetry supplies are readily available. Accounts for all telemetry transmitters, Verifies daily telemetry charges
• Identifies changes in rate, rhythm, or pattern, notifying RN of these changes. Responds appropriately to emergency situations, runs a continuous EKG strip and notifies appropriate staff
• Assists in answering telephone, ensures transmitters are properly cleaned between patients.
• Demonstrates a commitment to personal growth and development by completing annual mandatory in‐services and Code Validation within given time frame, attends unit‐based in‐services, attends monthly departmental meetings. Demonstrates flexibility in responding to unit/service needs, ., floating to other areas

Job Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited EKG Technician Program, upon hire and
• Completed Internship at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center or
• One (1) year of experience as a Monitor Tech, EMT, or Paramedic
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days

Where You'll Work

St. Joseph Health has been caring for the communities in and surrounding the Brazos Valley since 1936 (Bryan/College Station, Navasota, Caldwell, Madisonville (TX)). St. Joseph has a Level III Trauma Center, the first Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center and the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Brazos Valley.

St. Joseph Health is a leader in critical care and the largest provider of cardiovascular care in the region. As an integrated healthcare system St. Joseph Health includes a comprehensive network of over 100 employed providers including primary care physicians specialists and advanced practice clinicians. The network includes more than 30 ambulatory clinics featuring Primary Care, Express Clinics and Imaging and Diagnostic Services.

Total Rewards

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.