Cardiac Monitor Associate Full-time Nights

LCMC Health•New Orleans, LA

42d

About The Position

Your job is more than a job. On the front line of heart health care, as a Cardiac Monitor Associate, your training has prepared you and compassion motivates you. Observing, listening, and detecting, you're amazed by the heart and the technology that keeps it going. Spotting that "needle in a haystack" comes in handy as you analyze data and detect outliers from your patients' cardiac monitors, documenting and reporting abnormal patterns, addressing telemetry equipment issues, and maintaining supplies. Technology without heart is just an empty canvas. You love being the artist that completes the picture and makes a difference in patients' lives every day. And we love that you about you. Your experiences, your knowledge, your skills, your empathy, your compassion, and your personality, all of it adds up to you. And we're excited to get to know you and find out what you'll bring to this essential nursing support role.

Requirements

High School Diploma/GED
Completion of cardiac monitor training course or 1 year experience as an EKG tech or monitoring cardiac rhythms
American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification (CPR, BLS)

Responsibilities

Observe cardiac monitor for proper waveform on each telemetry patient, prevent the loss of signal and ensure accurate capture of potential cardiac events.
Assign telemetry transmitter patients and assist the staff in establishing/maintaining electrode placement using proper skin preparation.
Select the lead for monitoring and ensure an acceptable tracing, check battery function/replacement batteries.
Identify and notify the nursing staff of baseline cardiac rate and rhythm, document with a rhythm strip, investigate loss of signal or apparent lead disconnection with the nursing staff.
Provide continuous surveillance of cardiac rhythm in accordance with the algorithm established in the central monitoring policy, notify the staff nurse of a rhythm change, activate the rapid response or code blue team, as indicated.
Maintain rhythm strips, monitoring logs in accordance with the central cardiac monitoring policy and as evidence by random audits of the logbooks.
Interpret EKG by analyzing and recording atrial and ventricular rates and rhythms.
Participate in unit initiatives and quality improvement.
Ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.
Contribute to the team by assistingâ¯others without being asked.