Telemetry Tech I (Full-TIme)
Erie, Pennsylvania
UPMC Hamot is looking for a Telemetry Technician to support the Medical Center by monitoring patients on all units!
If you're passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!
This position is Full-Time, with rotating day and evening shifts.
Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
If you're passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!
This position is Full-Time, with rotating day and evening shifts.
Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.
Responsibilities:
- Instructs staff on nursing units to troubleshoot minor problems (e.g., lead placement). Identifies own learning needs and sets personal education goals.
- Aware of quality improvement issues in the unit and contributes appropriately. Maintains effective inter- and intra-departmental communications, both written and oral.
- Interacts positively with patients, families, physicians, nursing staff, and other disciplines. Identified as positive, approachable, and consistently respectful and team-oriented.
- Identifies and communicates patient information to the next shift and ensures effective handoff. Promotes a positive image by refraining from participating in gossip.
- Maintains a clean and safe environment by establishing routine schedules for cleaning the unit. Provides routine maintenance to telemetry equipment and troubleshoots minor problems.
- Identifies problems and seeks resources to resolve issues within their control. Delivers correct telemetry reports to the appropriate nursing units.
- Files patient documents on the correct charts. Acquires and maintains supplies; stocks and organizes the unit.
- Displays awareness of cultural diversity and values patients' perceptions regarding care. Meets the full range of customer needs.
- Actions demonstrate commitment to Hamot's vision 'to serve.' Handles information in a confidential manner.
- Demonstrates Hamot's commitment to Service Excellence by understanding the needs of patients, their families, physicians, and co-workers, and fulfilling requirements responsibly, sensitively, accurately, timely, coordinated, and thoroughly.
- Interprets cardiac rhythm of patients on in-house telemetry. Identifies normal cardiac rhythms and recognizes basic arrhythmias.
- Reports changes outside stated parameters to the appropriate nursing unit immediately.
- Is alert and responsive to urgent and emergency situations, acting within established guidelines, and informing responsible persons in case of emergencies.
- Maintains and updates each patient monitor record consistently and timely. Provides safe patient care, obtaining accurate patient data, and reporting findings promptly with attention to detail.
- Responds appropriately to delegated duties. Makes annotations on the recording regarding patient movement, artifact, and questionable seizure activity.
- Learns how to apply electrodes according to the 10-20 system. Recognizes normal waveforms during awake, drowsy, and asleep states.
Qualifications:
- High School graduate (or completion of G.E.D.)
- Completion of Telemetry/Arrhythmia Course within 3 months of date of hire.
- Ability to provide total concentration on a number of monitors over an extended period of time.
- Ability to interpret cardiac rhythm of patients on in house telemetry Ability to respond to and communicate emergency situations.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Basic computer skills.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: - Act 34
- Completion of telemetry/arrhythmia course within 3 months of date of hire.
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Created: 2024-06-15
Reference: 6099110775
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
City: Erie
ZIP: 16546
About UPMC Senior Communities
Founded in: 1893
Number of Employees: 110000
Website: https://www.upmc.com/
Career site: https://careers.upmc.com/
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