Monitor Technician (Part-time) - UPMC Western Maryland
at UPMC
Cumberland, MD 21502, USA -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 29 Jul, 2024 | USD 25 Hourly | 01 May, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
UPMC WESTERN MARYLAND IS SEEKING A PART-TIME, OBSERVANT MONITOR TECHNICIAN TO JOIN THEIR TEAM OF LIFE-CHANGERS!
This is a 24 hr/wk evening/night shift position that will include rotating weekends and holidays.
As a Monitor Technician, you’ll provide continuous visual surveillance of numerous patient cardiac rhythm monitors and notify appropriate nursing personnel immediately of changes and/or life-threatening dysrhythmias. Performs quality EKGs. Place and scan Holter monitors. Transtelephonic Pacemaker Clinic (if cross trained).
Responsibilities:
- Promotes and maintains desired public, interpersonal, and interdepartmental relationships and patient confidentiality.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of the physical and electronic character of the diagnostic instrumentation used and must demonstrate equipment troubleshooting skills.
- If cross trained, conducts transtelephonic pacemaker function testing including scheduling and billing components.
- Responsible for personal job skill development and maintaining clinical expertise.
- Maintains certification in CPR once oriented.
- Attends in-service education and skill development courses as offered.
- Is available to cover subsequent shift if staffing is inadequate.
- Accurately manages ECG tracing/order matching in computerized equipment for physician on line reading and upload to electronic medical record.
- Completes billing for technical component of ECGs and Holters.
- Explains the nature and rationale of examinations to patients/hospital personnel in understandable terms.
- Completes a brief patient history prior to Holter monitor procedures.
- Properly positions the patient to perform the exam and make any specific preparations required to assure thoroughness and accuracy of the study.
- Supports peer personnel in daily work assignments maintaining a constant awareness of the nature and volume of work and takes necessary actions to expedite completion of procedures.
- Cleans equipment on a daily basis.
- Stocks supply areas and distributes inventory.
- Notifies key personnel or manager of need for supplies and reports need for equipment service and repair to manager or bio-med medical department.
- Responsible for receiving and accurately completing and processing requests for ECGs and Holter monitors.
- Ability to push ECGs machines on carts with wheels in order to perform studies in various areas throughout the hospital.
- Provides visual surveillance of numerous cardiac monitors simultaneously while maintaining 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular or atrial ectopic, normal or unknown).
- Maintains alarms per policy.
- Recognizes and immediately notifies appropriate hospital personnel of changes in a patient’s rhythm or life threatening dysrhythmia and documents changes on patient record system.
- If cross trained, scans Holter monitor tapes with 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular and atrial ectopic, pacemaker, normal and unknown).
- High school or equivalent.
- Experience in Cardiac Telemetry monitoring or EKG desired.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Hospital/Health Care
Pharma / Biotech / Healthcare / Medical / R&D
Health Care
Diploma
Proficient
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Cumberland, MD 21502, USA