Telemonitor Technician

SSM Health; Mount Vernon (IL); On-site; USD 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mount Vernon is seeking a PRN Telemetry Monitor Technician to continuously monitor cardiac rhythms and ensure accurate record-keeping. Training is provided, with emphasis on rapid response, vigilance, and adherence to nursing standards.

Responsibilities include rhythm verification, alerting staff to critical changes, and maintaining telemetry logs. Prior experience is not required, making this role accessible to motivated applicants seeking on-the-job

Qualifications

• High School diploma or 10 years' work experience.
• No experience required; on-the-job training provided.

Responsibilities

• Monitor cardiac rhythms continuously and interpret alarms.
• Record rhythm strips and maintain telemetry logs per standards.
• Notify staff of rhythm changes and potential issues.
• Ensure alarms are active and set correctly for patients.

Skills

Cardiac monitoring

Attention to detail

Rapid response

High concentration

Education

High School diploma/GED

10 years of work experience

Job description

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

IL-SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mount Vernon

Worker Type

PRN

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. Clinical experience is preferred but not required, as comprehensive on-the-job training is provided. This role requires continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms with a high level of concentration, strong attention to detail, and the ability to promptly recognize and respond to changes in cardiac rate and rhythm.

Department

Cardiac/ Tele- Monitor

Schedule

PRN, Flexible

Pay Range

$15.63 - $23.45

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

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

3014000046 Monitor Technicians

Work Shift

Variable Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

0

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