Monitor Technician

UPMC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 37,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC in Pittsburgh is seeking a Monitor Technician to join our Central Monitoring team, continuously monitoring cardiac rhythms across units and supporting nursing staff to uphold high patient care standards.

The role includes 12-hour day or overnight shifts (6:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.–6:30 a.m.), with a rotating schedule of three days one week and two days the next, including weekends and holidays. A collaborative environment supports ongoing clinical excellence.

Qualifications

• Maintains CPR certification once oriented.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and maintains patient confidentiality and professional relationships.
• Demonstrates knowledge of diagnostic instrumentation and performs equipment troubleshooting.
• Cross-trained staff may conduct transtelephonic pacemaker testing including scheduling and billing.
• Maintains clinical expertise and attends in-service education as offered.
• Covers subsequent shifts if staffing is inadequate.
• Accurately manages ECG tracing and Holter data for physician on-line reading and EMR upload.
• Explains examinations to patients and staff and documents patient history for Holter procedures.
• Supports peers in daily work and expedites completion of procedures.
• Cleans equipment, stocks supplies, and notifies for repairs.
• Requests ECGs and Holter monitor services and moves ECG machines as needed.
• Monitors multiple cardiac rhythms with high accuracy and notifies staff of rhythm changes.

Job description

Are you passionate about patient care and thrive in a fast-paced hospital environment? Join our Central Monitoring team, where you’ll play a critical role in continuously monitoring cardiac rhythms for patients across multiple units throughout the hospital. As a Monitor Technician, you’ll work alongside nursing teams to support exceptional patient care while contributing to ongoing educational initiatives that strengthen clinical excellence.

This position offers both daylight and overnight 12-hour shifts (6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.) with a rotating schedule of three days one week and two days the next, including rotating weekends and holidays. Successful candidates will have the ability to accurately monitor cardiac rhythms and remain calm and focused in a dynamic healthcare setting. If you’re looking for an opportunity to be part of a highly collaborative team that serves as the hub of patient monitoring across the hospital, we’d love to hear from you!

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).