What are the responsibilities and job description for the Monitor Tech position at UPMC?
UPMC Jameson is hiring a Monitor Technician to join the Central Monitoring Team! This full-time role will work both 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. with no travel required. Weekend and holiday work is required, and holiday work is on a rotating schedule. No on call is required.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with coordinating transfers.
- Notify Primary Care Nurse and/or Clinical Supervisor or Charge Nurse of changes.
- General Secretarial Duties.
- Provide copy of shift summary and send to appropriate unit of remote monitored patients.
- Utilize monitor pause to ensure right monitor, right patient, and right room.
- Placement of, or send to appropriate remote unit, daily monitor renewal labels.
- Daily monitoring charge in Star system.
- Cardiac monitoring.
- Interact with families and visitors.
- Assist with discharges.
- Interpretation of cardiac rhythms.
- Answer Telephones and deliver messages.
- At the end of 3-11 shifts, send the past 24 hour record to the appropriate unit of remote monitored patients.
- Documentation of rhythms by printing end of shift strips, include shift summary and changes.
- Assist with tear down of discharge charts.
- Verbally report to incoming ICT.
- Assist with transcription of orders if skill level permits.
- Communication, internal and external.
- Management of patients with Cardiac disease and knowledge of appropriate care of the patient with a Cardiac related complaint.
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000