Monitor technician

This is a 24 hr / wk evening / night shift position that will include rotating weekends and holidays.

As a Monitor Technician, you'll provide continuous visual surveillance of numerous patient cardiac rhythm monitors and notify appropriate nursing personnel immediately of changes and / or life-threatening dysrhythmias.

Performs quality EKGs. Place and scan Holter monitors. Transtelephonic Pacemaker Clinic (if cross trained).

Responsibilities

• Promotes and maintains desired public, interpersonal, and interdepartmental relationships and patient confidentiality.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of the physical and electronic character of the diagnostic instrumentation used and must demonstrate equipment troubleshooting skills.
• If cross trained, conducts transtelephonic pacemaker function testing including scheduling and billing components.
• Responsible for personal job skill development and maintaining clinical expertise.
• Maintains certification in CPR once oriented.
• Attends in-service education and skill development courses as offered.
• Is available to cover subsequent shift if staffing is inadequate.
• Accurately manages ECG tracing / order matching in computerized equipment for physician on line reading and upload to electronic medical record.
• Completes billing for technical component of ECGs and Holters.
• Explains the nature and rationale of examinations to patients / hospital personnel in understandable terms.
• Completes a brief patient history prior to Holter monitor procedures.
• Properly positions the patient to perform the exam and make any specific preparations required to assure thoroughness and accuracy of the study.
• Supports peer personnel in daily work assignments maintaining a constant awareness of the nature and volume of work and takes necessary actions to expedite completion of procedures.
• Cleans equipment on a daily basis.
• Stocks supply areas and distributes inventory.
• Notifies key personnel or manager of need for supplies and reports need for equipment service and repair to manager or bio-med medical department.
• Responsible for receiving and accurately completing and processing requests for ECGs and Holter monitors.
• Ability to push ECGs machines on carts with wheels in order to perform studies in various areas throughout the hospital.
• Provides visual surveillance of numerous cardiac monitors simultaneously while maintaining 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular or atrial ectopic, normal or unknown).
• Maintains alarms per policy.
• Recognizes and immediately notifies appropriate hospital personnel of changes in a patient's rhythm or life threatening dysrhythmia and documents changes on patient record system.
• If cross trained, scans Holter monitor tapes with 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular and atrial ectopic, pacemaker, normal and unknown).

Qualifications

• High school or equivalent.
• Experience in Cardiac Telemetry monitoring or EKG desired.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances :

• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• Cardiac Technician, Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician or Paramedic background desired.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Last updated : 2024-05-14