Telemonitor Technician

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling. MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City 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 m...