SSM Health is hiring: Telemetry Technician - No Experience Required in Madison
SSM Health, Madison, WI, United States
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WI-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Job Highlights:**
+ **Department** : 2E ICU ?
+ **Patient Population or Ratio** : Adult Surgical Intensive Care Unit ?
+ **Schedule** : Part Time - 24 hours per week, Evening Shift
+ **Starting Pay** : $18.00
+ **Shift Differentials** : Available for night, weekend, and additional shifts?
+ **Location** : St. Mary's Madison Hospital
**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
**Department:**
3016000007 Pt Monitoring Center (PMC)
**Work Shift:**
Evening Shift (United States of America)
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
20
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