Monitor Technician PRN

Doctors Hospital of Augusta; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

Doctors Hospital of Augusta is offering PRN Monitor Technician opportunities to join our team within the HCA Healthcare family. You will monitor cardiac rhythms and telemetry, assist with documentation, and support nursing staff to ensure patient comfort and safety.

Key duties include interpreting rhythms, reporting changes to nursing staff, maintaining telemetry supplies, recording patient condition in computerized systems, and orienting new staff. Basic Life Support is required within 30 days.

Qualifications

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Must be able to pass the Rhythms and Arrhythmias exam
• Telemetry experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides physical comfort and care to patients
• Observes and maintains cardiac monitors and telemetry units
• Interpret rhythms and arrhythmias
• Report changes in heart rate/rhythm to nursing staff
• Maintain Telemetry Supplies
• Record patient condition using computerized documentation
• Orient and mentor new staff
• Follow Standard Precautions with PPE as required

Skills

Rhythms & Arrhythmias interpretation

Telemetry monitoring

Patient care basics

Job description

Do you have the PRN career opportunities as a Monitor Technician PRN you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Doctors Hospital of Augusta which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary And Qualifications

Provides physical comfort and care to all patients assigned to them, answers telephone and intercom, assists in transcribing medical orders and nursing information, observes and maintains the cardiac monitors and telemetry units.

What you will do in this role:

• You will interpret Rhythms and Arrhythmias.
• You will report all changes in heart rate/rhythm to appropriate nursing staff.
• You will maintain Telemetry Supplies.
• You will record patient condition utilizing computerized documentation systems.
• You will perform duties with full understanding of related age specific factors.
• You will orient and mentor new staff members.
• You will follow Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Must be able to pass the Rhythms and Arrhythmias exam
• Telemetry experience preferred

Doctors Hospital of Augusta has provided quality healthcare services since 1973. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. With nearly 50 years of pioneering healthcare, our 350+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities. We offer a wide range of services for our patients. Our services include our nationally recognized Burn Center and Cancer Center, accredited by the American College of Surgeons. We are Chest Pain Accredited. We have earned the Joint Commission's certificate of distinction for total hip and total knee replacement and spinal fusion surgery and are the only CARF accredited facility in the area.

At Doctors Hospital, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our Augusta community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.