Cardiac Monitor Technician

Cardiac Monitor Technician

Under general supervision, follows established policies, procedures, and professional guidelines. Responsible for monitoring and identifying basic normal cardiac rhythms, dysrhythmias, and lethal arrhythmias; reporting these findings to the appropriate personnel, and rhythm documentation and labeling per TGH policy. Promotes and maintains patient support including but not limited to: interprets and post rhythm strips and protocol, performs 12 lead EKGs. Maintain and clean portable telemetry monitors between patient use according to manufacturer's guidelines. Essential functions include accurately interpreting changes in rhythms, recording rhythm strips as required, demonstrating arrhythmia recognition skills, communicating lethal arrhythmias to nursing staff and documenting strips as requested, maintaining alarms on at all times with rates set safely to minimize false alarms, identifying individual EKGs with proper patient identifiers, working with the computer system, maintaining flow through the ER and facilitating transfers, admissions and discharges timely, answering telephone and intercom in a pleasant and professional manner and relaying message accurately and quickly, and reporting any malfunction of monitoring equipment to the Biomedical Technicians, Charge Nurse, and Nursing Director.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Certification Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• Basic EKG class and demonstration of competency through testing

Primary Location: Spring Hill

Work Locations: TGH Spring Hill 10461 Quality Drive Spring Hill 34609 Eligible for Remote Work: On Site

Job: Nursing (Technical/Clerical) Organization: Tampa General Hospital-Hernando Shift: Day Job Type: On Site Shift Hours: varies Minimum Salary: 15.07