Description
Provide continuous visual surveillance of numerous patient cardiac rhythm monitors and notify appropriate nursing personnel immediately of changes and/or life-threatening dysrhythmias on a fast paced unit.
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.
- Prior experience desired in a clinical or diagnostic cardiac health care setting, preferably hospital based Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Documented proficiency of cardiac dysrhythmias recognition required.
- Ability to pass hospital provided dysrhythmia course with a score of 90% or better.
- Performance of basic keyboarding skills required to operate equipment.
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.
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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