Telemetry Monitoring Technician

MedStar Health; Baltimore (MD); Vor Ort; USD 25.000 - 41.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

MedStar Health in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Monitor Technician to supervise telemetry patients and support the clinical team. In this role you will monitor telemetry consoles, document rhythms every two hours, report changes to nurses, maintain printer paper and alarms, and participate in quality improvement teams to ensure safe patient care.

The position requires a High School Diploma or GED and completion of the Monitor Technician program, with less than one year of emergency rhythm

Qualifikationen

• High School Diploma or GED required or equivalent.
• Completion of the Monitor Technician Program required.
• Less than 1 year experience with emergency situations and maintaining continuous rhythm strips required.

Aufgaben

• Monitors patients on telemetry consoles and reports changes to the nurse.
• Documents rhythm every two hours on EKG flow sheet and obtains strips of irregularities.
• Maintains charge requisitions and notifies nursing staff about electrode changes and new monitored patients.
• Ensures safe operation of the Monitoring Console and keeps paper loaders full.
• Monitors assigned telemetry console, obtains monitor strips at shift start, and dates/Times strips for flow sheet.
• Provides a verbal report to relief staff and a patient report to oncoming technicians.
• Verifies and adjusts alarm limits for each patient and ensures alarms are on.
• Participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.

Kenntnisse

Verbal communication

Written communication

Basic computer skills

Ausbildung

High School Diploma or GED

Jobbeschreibung

MedStar Health in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Monitor Technician to supervise telemetry patients and support the clinical team. In this role you will monitor telemetry consoles, document rhythms every two hours, report changes to nurses, maintain printer paper and alarms, and participate in quality improvement teams to ensure safe patient care.

The position requires a High School Diploma or GED and completion of the Monitor Technician program, with less than one year of emergency rhythm