Monitor Tech - Emergency Services

Prime Healthcare•Reno, NV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community! Saint Mary’s Health Network, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference. As a long-standing community partner with a 116-year history, Saint Mary’s Health Network offers Northern Nevada inpatient, outpatient, ancillary, and wellness services. Nationally recognized and accredited by the Joint Commission, as well as named one of the Top 100 Hospitals by Fortune/Merative and America’s Best 250 hospitals by Healthgrades, Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center is a 352-bed acute care hospital offering a robust line of inpatient, outpatient and ancillary services including a top-rated Center for Cancer, surgical and orthopedic services, and an award-winning Cardiology program and more. The health system, a member of Prime Healthcare, also operates a fully-integrated Medical Group, multiple urgent care clinics, freestanding imaging, lab, and primary care clinics. For more information, visit www.SaintMarysReno.com. The Monitor Tech is an unlicensed person who performs indirect care in the department setting. This role involves monitoring cardiac rhythms via direct cardiac monitors, meeting the communication needs of the department, and transcribing physician orders when CPOE and EMR clinical documentation systems are absent. The Monitor Tech also verifies lab and radiology tests, prepares and compiles records in the ER, orders unit supplies, and completes patient charts daily. They can assist nursing staff with indirect patient care duties, provided it does not interfere with their primary responsibility of dysrhythmia monitoring. Additionally, direct patient care may be provided under the direct supervision of an RN if the individual possesses active CNA certification, demonstrates annual competency in CNA duties and skills, and is relieved of Monitor Technician duties during that time.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent.
Must be able to communicate in English (Speak, Write).
BLS (AHA) certification required.
Successful completion of Basic Arrhythmia training within 90 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

Previous acute care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Performs indirect care in the department setting.
Monitors cardiac rhythms via direct cardiac monitors.
Meets the communication needs of the department.
Transcribes physician orders in the absence of CPOE and EMR clinical documentation system.
Verifies that lab tests and radiology tests have been ordered and done.
Prepares and complies records in the ER.
Orders supplies for the unit.
Prepares and completes each patient's chart for necessary forms needed daily.
Able to assist nursing staff with indirect patient care duties as long as the activity does not distract from primary responsibility for dysrhythmia monitoring.
May provide direct patient care under the direct supervision of the RN within scope of Certified Nursing Assistant if 1) possesses active CNA certification; 2) demonstrates annual competency in CNA duties and skills and 3) is relieved of Monitor Technician duties during the time of assisting the RN.