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Telemetry Tech at CommonSpirit Health in Location not listed
Job Description
Telemetry Tech
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Telemetry Tech, you will be a vital part of our patient care team, expertly monitoring and interpreting ECG rhythms in acute care and emergency settings. You'll be instrumental in ensuring the accuracy of patient reports, troubleshooting equipment with precision, and demonstrating unwavering accountability for our organization's mission and core values. This role offers an incredible opportunity to make a direct impact on patient safety and well-being.
Every day you will continually monitor patients on telemetry, accurately recording ECG changes, and swiftly reporting critical developments to the appropriate personnel. You'll skillfully troubleshoot equipment issues, communicate effectively with your team leader, and ensure meticulous documentation and confidential maintenance of patient charts. Your attention to detail will be key in maintaining inventory, cleaning transmitters after use, and proactively identifying and addressing malfunctioning equipment to uphold the highest standards of cardiac monitoring.
To be successful in this role, you will possess excellent organizational skills, clear verbal and interpersonal communication abilities, strong customer relations acumen, impeccable grammar and spelling, and the capacity to read and comprehend written instructions while also following verbal directives efficiently.
- Responsible for observation and documentation of patient’s cardiac rhythm: every shift, when an arrhythmia occurs, and on each new patient as they are placed on telemetry.
- RN to cosign patient’s documented rhythm.
- Recognizes and notifies RN immediately when life threatening arrhythmia occurs.
- Promptly responds to all monitor alarms according to department/hospital policy.
- Documents all communication to care givers.
- Ensures central monitor is never left unattended.
- Ensures all patients on telemetry are connected to central monitor and alarms are appropriately set.
- Maintains patient EKG records in systematic organized fashion.
- Files EKG reports into charts as needed.
Job Requirements
Required
- High School Diploma/G.E.D.
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
- Basic clerical, computer data entry and math skills.
- Current Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association.
Preferred
- One (1) year of acute care experience.
- Telemetry experience.
Where You’ll Work
For more than 50 years, St. Anthony North Hospital has delivered optimal health care to the communities of Westminster, Erie, Brighton, Broomfield, Northglenn and Thornton. Highlights of our campus include 60,000 square feet of integrated primary and specialty care physician clinics, ambulatory surgery center, birthing center with private birthing suites, Level III Trauma Center with 24/7 emergency services, over 150 inpatient beds and an outpatient diagnostics center with lab and imaging services. In 2023, we received our prestigious Magnet designation! We are so proud of our nursing staff for this achievement, which is awarded to less than 6 percent of hospitals in the United States. Built on the pillars of convenience, wellness and person-centered care, we offer inpatient and outpatient care at one site, with an emphasis on preventive health, wellness and health education.