GENERAL SUMMARY OF POSITION

Monitors patients on the telemetry consoles.

EDUCATION

• High School Diploma or GED required or
• equivalent. required

EXPERIENCE

• Less than 1 year 6 months experience with emergency situations and maintaining continuous strips of cardiac rhythms required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic computer skills preferred.
  This position has a hiring range of $17.5 - $28.73

• Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards. Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.
• Documents rhythm every two hours on EKG flow sheet. Immediately reports any change in cardiac rhythm to the nurse. Obtains strips of irregularities.
• Maintains charge requisitions on monitored patients. Makes nursing personnel aware of need for replacement of patient electrodes and/or newly monitored patients to be connected.
• Maintains safe and effective operation of the Monitoring Console at all times. Ensures that paper loaders are full.
• Monitors assigned telemetry console. Obtains monitor strips at the start of each shift, interprets strip, puts date and time on each strip, and places it on flow sheet.
• Provides a verbal report to relief persons and gives a patient report to oncoming technicians.
• Verifies and adjusts alarm limits as established for the levels appropriate to the individual patient. Verifies alarms are on at all times.
• Participates in multi-disciplinary quality and service improvement teams.
• Answers and makes telephone calls, responds to intercom/patient call bells and email, identifies emergency messages
• Maintains inventory of office supplies. Reports unit equipment that is malfunctioning or defective to appropriate personnel.
• Stops any secretarial duties and responds to all lethal dysrhythmias SVT (sustained), Ventricular tachycardia (VT), Ventricular fibrillation (VF), and Asystole, notifies appropriate RN and documents in monitor tech log.