Telemetry Associate

About the role

Embark on a rewarding career with DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital. If you are a compassionate healthcare professional eager to contribute to patient care, this is your opportunity where your skills make a difference every day. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with a personal touch.

Responsibilities

• Assist the medical and nursing staff in continuous monitoring of patient ECG rhythms and maintaining monitoring equipment.
• Initiate tracing if a change occurs in patient rhythm and immediately alert nursing personnel.
• Maintain and monitor rate limits and recognize whether irregularity is due to change in patient rhythm or machine malfunction.
• Alert repair personnel of machine malfunction.
• Under direct supervision, and according to established policies and procedures, perform a variety of clerical and receptionist duties for assigned patient care service or nursing unit.
• Operate on-line computer terminal to transcribe orders and enter/retrieve/correct patient information.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Previous hospital experience preferred.
• Six months of prior job experience where substantial computer usage is significant part of job; OR 3 credit hours of computer classes in computer training (keyboarding, navigation, specific applications) or college program.
• Equivalent combination of coursework and experience.
• Knowledge of medical terminology preferred (e.g., completion of medical terminology/transcription course or unit clerk/unit secretary classes).
• Must be able to successfully complete three to four week program in basic cardiac arrhythmia monitoring.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
• Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status

Facility Description

DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital is DMC’s largest hospital, offering a comprehensive heart center, cancer care, gerontology, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and cosmetic services. Sinai-Grace’s joint replacement program features a revolutionary minimally invasive knee and hip replacement surgery that attracts patients from all over the country. Sinai-Grace operates more than 21 outpatient care sites and ambulatory surgery centers throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties and is one of 10 hospitals in the nation to be awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help set the standards of cardiac care for hospitals and physicians throughout the nation.