Monitor Tech Extern - Oncology - PT - Flex - MHW

Responsibilities

• Documents the electrocardiograph tracings of patients on telemetry monitors.
• Records information in patient's log and maintains accurate, neat account of patient's cardiac monitoring status during episode of care.
• Identifies and records patient's rhythm and changes in patient rhythm and condition.
• Updates patient's records with all readings taken from the heart monitor or EKGs.
• Activates emergency response or rapid response for lethal arrhythmia or cardiac arrest.
• Performs continual and simultaneous surveillance for the operation of complex cardiac monitoring systems, including ECG rhythm screens, computerized dysrhythmia detection system and rhythm printers.
• Attaches electrode to patients' bodies to record electrical impulses from the heart to perform continuous ECG Monitoring.
• Identifies and corrects for artifacts.
• Reports abnormal or change in patient's telemetry monitoring to nursing staff or immediate supervisor or designated chain of command.
• Identifies arrhythmias, deviation in each patient's baseline, signs of patient deterioration, and intervenes to ensure patient safety.

Requirements

• Vocation Technical: Electrocardiogram Competency (Required)
• BLS American Heart E-Card (BLS AHA ECARD) - American Heart Association (AMERICAN HEART)
• BLS Cert American Heart_non ecard (BLS AHA) - American Heart Association (AMERICAN HEART)
• BLS Cert Red Cross (BLS RC) - Red Cross (RED CROSS)
• Grace (BLS GRACE) - Employee Grace Period for Essential Credential (GRACE)
• BLS Cert Red Cross (BLS RC) - Red Cross (RED CROSS)

Qualifications

• No prior work experience required.

Skills

• Accountability
• Customer Service
• Patient and Family Centered Care
• Patient Safety - Ancillary/Support
• Problem Solving
• Responding to Change
• Standards of Behavior
• Telemetry Monitoring and Interpretation

Benefits

Monitor Tech Extern program successful completion required within 60 days post-graduation.

Pay

Wages shown on independent job boards reflect market averages, not specific to any employer.

Schedule

Working Conditions And Physical Requirements

• Audible Speech = 60%
• Bending and Stooping = 20%
• Bio hazardous Waste = 40%
• Biological Hazards - Respiratory = 40%
• Biological Hazards - Skin or Ingestion = 40%
• Blood and/or Bodily Fluids = 40%
• Climbing = 0%
• Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens = 40%
• Computer Monitor = 60%
• Cytotoxic Chemicals = 0%
• Depth Perception = 60%
• Distinguishing Color = 60%
• Domestic Animals = 20%
• Dust = 40%
• Extreme Heat/Cold = 0%
• Fire Risk = 20%
• Gas/Vapors/Fumes = 40%
• Hazardous Chemicals = 0%
• Hazardous Medication = 0%
• Hazardous Noise = 0%
• Hearing Acuity = 60%
• Heating Devices = 0%
• Hypoxia = 0%
• Keyboard Entry = 60%
• Kneeling = 20%
• Laser/High Intensity Lights = 0%
• Latex = 0%
• Lifting or Carrying > 75 lbs Non-Patient = 0%
• Magnetic Fields = 0%
• Moving Mechanical Parts = 60%
• Needles/Sharp Objects = 60%
• Potential Electric Shock = 20%
• Potential for Physical Assault = 0%
• Pushing or Pulling > 75 lbs Non-Patient = 0%
• Pushing or Pulling 0 - 25 lbs Non-Patient = 0%
• Pushing or Pulling 26 - 75 lbs Non-Patient = 0%
• Radiation = 0%
• Reaching = 0%
• Repetitive Movement Foot/Leg = 0%
• Repetitive Movement Hand/Arm = 60%
• Running = 0%
• Seeing - Far = 60%
• Seeing - Near = 60%
• Sitting = 60%
• Smelling Acuity = 0%
• Squatting = 20%
• Sitting = 60%
• Standing = 20%
• Sudden Decompression During Flights = 0%
• Taste Discrimination = 0%
• Unprotected Heights = 0%
• Walking = 20%
• Wet or Slippery Surfaces = 60%
• Shift Nights