Monitor Technician, Night Shift, Heart and Vascular (HVU)
About The Position
White Oak Medical Center seeks an experienced Monitor Technician for its Heart and Vascular Unit. The role supports continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring and patient safety by observing telemetry, documenting and obtaining rhythm strips, ensuring alarms and monitoring equipment function appropriately, and communicating changes or relevant information to nursing staff and other technicians. The position is full-time, with three 12-hour night shifts per week, typically 6:45 PM–7:15 AM, and requires every-other-weekend rotation and holiday coverage according to the unit holiday calendar.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- One year of experience with emergency situations and maintaining continuous strips of cardiac rhythms.
- Complete the Monitor Technician Program within six months of hire.
- Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Responsibilities
- Document cardiac rhythms on the EKG flow sheet and immediately report rhythm changes to the nurse.
- Obtain strips when irregularities occur.
- Maintain charge requisitions for monitored patients.
- Notify nursing personnel when patient electrodes need replacement or newly monitored patients need to be connected.
- Maintain safe and effective operation of the monitoring console, including keeping paper loaders full.
- Monitor the assigned telemetry console.
- At the start of each shift, obtain monitor strips, interpret them, record the date and time, and place them on the flow sheet.
- Participate in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.
- Provide a verbal report to relief staff and a patient report to incoming technicians.
- Verify and adjust alarm limits as established for each patient's appropriate level of care.
- Verify that alarms are on at all times.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Nonrotating shifts to support work-life balance.
- Recognition and rewards for professional expertise.
- Free employee parking.
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents effective on the date of hire.
- Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D; short-term disability buy-up is available.
- Paid time off.
- Employer retirement contribution and match after one year of eligible employment, with a three-year vesting period.
- Voluntary benefits including flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long-term care, and critical illness and accident insurance.
- Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
