Telemonitor Technician - No Experience Required - SSM Health : Job Details

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IL-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia

**Worker Type:**

Regular

**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

**Work Shift:**

Night Shift (United States of America)

**Job Type:**

Employee

**Department:**

301####### Monitor Technicians

**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**

36

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