Telemonitor Technician

SSM Health; Fond du Lac (WI); On-site; USD 27,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

SSM Health is seeking a part-time Telemetry Monitoring Technician at WI-St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. The role focuses on continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring, ensuring patient safety and accurate rhythm documentation.

You will support care teams, respond to rhythm changes, and maintain telemetry logs and equipment while working in a patient-centered environment.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED, or 10 years of work experience.
• No experience required.

Responsibilities

• Runs strip at admission, every 4 hours, and with rhythm changes.
• Measures PR, QRS, QT and interprets rhythm.
• Signs each strip with initials, last name, and position.
• Posts strips on telemetry log and maintains to unit.
• Notifies staff about rhythm changes per protocol.
• Ensures alarms are on and properly set for adults and children.
• Checks electrodes or batteries and alerts staff as needed.
• Understands effects of procedures/medications on rhythm.
• Runs continuous strip for VT, VT, tachycardia and bradycardia as needed.
• Maintains telemetry logs and transmitter/SPO2 inventory.
• Works with alertness and safety; performs other duties.

Education

High School diploma/GED

10 years of work experience

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

WI-St. Agnes Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.
In this role, you'll be at the heart of patient monitoring, helping care teams stay informed of critical cardiac rhythm changes around the clock. Your keen eye for detail, dedication to accuracy, and ability to remain focused in a dynamic environment will directly contribute to patient safety and quality care. If you enjoy technology, thrive under pressure, and want to make an impact from behind the scenes, this role is a great fit for you.

Department:

Monitoring Center

Schedule:

Part-time, scheduled 24 hours a week as a day shift

Job Summary:

Ensures continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms by observing cardiac monitors; maintains all records and reports of rhythm strips in accordance with the established nursing standards and procedures.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities

• Runs strip at time of admission, every 4 hours, and with any rhythm change.
• Measures PR, QRS, and QT and interprets rhythm accurately when a strip is run.
• Each strip is signed with first initial, full last name and position.
• Tubes completed rhythm verification form to appropriate unit in a timely manner. Posts strips on telemetry log for all units.
• Notifies appropriate unit and staff for any changes in baseline rhythm, including heart rate, or potentially lethal rhythms in adults or children according to protocol.
• Ensures that alarms are on at all times and set at appropriate limits for adults and children according to protocol.
• Notifies appropriate staff when electrodes or batteries need to be checked, replaced or changed.
• Demonstrates awareness of the effect certain procedures or medications have on a patient’s rhythm.
• Runs continuous strip for sustained VT, V-fib, asystole and bradycardia less than 40 per minute until code team arrives or otherwise notified.
• Maintains telemetry logs, current patient information, does transmitter/SPO2 inventory per shift, and telemetry charges.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

Experience

• No experience required

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Required Professional License And/Or Certifications

• None

Department

3016000038 CENTRAL TELEMETRY

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

24

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