Telemonitor Technician Night Shift - No Experience Required

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Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling. MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City Worker Type: Regular Job Summary: Ensures continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms by observing cardiac monitors; maintains all records and reports of rhythm strips in accordance with the established nursing standards and procedures. Job Responsibilities and Requirements: PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES + Runs strip at time of admission, every 4 hours, and with any rhythm change. + Measures PR, QRS, and QT and interprets rhythm accurately when a strip is run. + Each strip is signed with first initial, full last name and position. + Tubes completed rhythm verification form to appropriate unit in a timely manner. Posts strips on telemetry log for all units. + Notifies appropriate unit and staff for any changes in baseline rhythm, including heart rate, or potentially lethal rhythms in adults or children according to protocol. + Ensures that alarms are on at all times and set at appropriate limits for adults and children according to protocol. + Notifies appropriate staff when electrodes or batteries need to be checked, replaced or changed. + Demonstrates awareness of the effect certain procedures or medications have on a patient's rhythm. + Runs continuous strip for sustained VT, V-fib, asystole and bradycardia less than 40 per minute until code team arrives or otherwise notified. + Maintains telemetry logs, current patient information, does transmitter/SPO2 inventory per shift, and telemetry charges. + Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. + Performs other duties as assigned. EDUCATION + High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience EXPERIENCE + No experience required PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS + Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. + Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. + Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. + Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. + Frequent keyboard use/data entry. + Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping. + Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. + Rare climbing. REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS + None Work Shift: Night Shift (United States of America) Job Type: Employee Department: Central Telemetry Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36 _SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,_ _pregnancy, veteran status_ _,_ _or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more. (\_ga=2.0.43)_

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