Monitor Technician

About the role

Welcome to Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital Fort Worth, TX, a pinnacle of excellence and innovation where your skills can truly shine! Our hospital stands as a remarkable joint venture between Tenet Healthcare, USPI, and the esteemed Baylor Scott & White network. This partnership sets the stage for unparalleled collaboration, ensuring a diverse and enriching work environment.

Nestled at 1800 Park Place Avenue in Fort Worth, Texas, we've been dedicatedly serving Fort Worth residents and neighboring communities since 2014. Our commitment to our community's health and well-being is unwavering. We offer a wide spectrum of medical services, our 30-bed acute care surgical hospital includes an Emergency Department, a 30-bed inpatient unit, a 4-bed intensive care unit, and cutting-edge diagnostic imaging facilities.

Our facility is equipped with the latest medical advancements, including 14 state-of-the-art operating rooms, such as da Vinci, ExcelsiusGPS, and Mako Surgical Systems. We span across specialties such as ENT, Bariatric, Pulmonary, Gynecology, Orthopedics, and much more, including Spine and Craniotomy, making us a higher intensity hospital than a regular ortho surgery hospital.

Our unwavering focus on quality and service ensures that every surgical procedure is conducted in a meticulous and patient-oriented environment. Join us at Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital Fort Worth to embark on an incredible career.

Responsibilities

The Telemetry Monitor Technician is responsible for accurate record keeping, observation of monitors and prompt reporting of cardiac rhythm changes. As the Patient Care Technician, individual will interface with visitors, patients, family, and physicians on phone and in person for Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital at Fort Worth and Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital Outpatient Center.

• Monitors cardiac rhythms throughout the facility via centrally located telemetry monitors.
• Maintains ongoing, high-level surveillance of patients’ cardiac rhythms and communicates information about dysrhythmias to the patient care nurse/Charge Nurse.
• Measures and interprets patients’ heart rhythms and documents in patient record, per policy.
• Initiates/discontinues monitoring on admission, transfer or discharge. Performs configuration as necessary.
• Answers telephone and communicates clearly when receiving information from patient care units and/or physicians.
• Troubleshoots monitors with nursing staff and contacts Facilities/Biomed as appropriate.
• Gives report to oncoming shift.
• Cleans monitoring equipment, per policy
• Performs clerical duties including distribution of messages.
• Performs clinical duties, under the direction of an RN or LVN, including assisting patients to the restroom, removing IV catheters, etc.
• Cleans rooms if needed.
• Provides clinical, clerical and telephone support in emergencies
• Assists RN’s as instructed.
• Any other duties as instructed by supervisor

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma, or equivalent
• Licensure/Certification: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Certified Patient Care Technician (PCT), Medical Assistant (MA) Certification, or equivalent
• Monitor Tech Certification, or completion of a basic dysrhythmias course with documented competencies
• BLS Required
• Minimum one (1) year experience in a hospital setting preferred

Good communication and people skills, excellent clinical skills appropriate for a medical assistant, nursing assistant or patient care tech, and ability to utilize Electronic Healthcare Record for patient documentation are required.

Benefits

As an organization, one way we care for our communities and each other is by providing a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
• Life and AD&D coverage
• Availability of short- and long-term disability
• Flexible financial benefits including FSAs and HSAs
• 401(k) and access to retirement planning
• Paid holidays and vacation