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SSM Health · 6 hours ago

Telemonitor Technician - Evenings

Greater Madison Area

Part-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

0+ years exp

SSM Health is a healthcare organization that focuses on providing high-quality medical services. They are seeking a Telemonitor Technician to ensure continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms by observing cardiac monitors and maintaining records in accordance with nursing standards and procedures.

Health Care

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Operate and oversee medical equipment, ensuring functionality and safety

Respond promptly to alarms and auditory signals in a high-noise environment

Answer incoming calls professionally and efficiently, providing accurate information and directing inquiries appropriately

Assist in preparing discharge documentation and coordinating logistics, ensuring timely and accurate processing without direct patient care 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

Qualification

Cardiac monitoringMedical equipment operationData entryCommunication skillsAttention to detail

Required

High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

No experience required

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

None

Benefits

Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).

Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

Company

SSM Health

Glassdoor3.4

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system.

Founded in 1872

St Louis, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.ssmhealth.com/

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