Monitor Technician, Night Shift, Heart and Vascular Unit

Adventist HealthCare • Silver Spring, MD

1d • Onsite

About The Position

White Oak Medical Center seeks to hire an experienced Monitor Technician for our Heart and Vascular Unit who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing. As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County. Adventist HealthCare, based in Gaithersburg, MD., is a faith-based, not-for-profit organization of dedicated professionals who work together each day to improve the health and well-being of people and communities through a ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing. Our comprehensive approach to caring for our community includes three acute-care hospitals – Shady Grove Medical Center, White Oak Medical Center and Fort Washington Medical Center – as well as two Physical Rehabilitation hospitals, Outpatient centers, Imaging Centers, Urgent Cares, Home Care Services, Employer Health Programs and Physician Networks. We are nationally recognized and honored especially for our Cardiac, OB, Cancer, Stroke, Orthopedic, Rehabilitation and Mental Health services. Consider joining our team of over 6,000 employees and become part of one of the longest serving healthcare systems in the Washington, D.C., area that has a long-standing tradition as the largest provider of charity care and community benefit in Montgomery County.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required
• 1-year experience with emergency situations and maintaining continuous strips of cardiac rhythms.
• Completion of the Monitor Technician Program within 6 months of hire
• Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

Responsibilities

• Documents rhythm on EKG flow sheet. Immediately reports any change in cardiac rhythm to the nurse.
• Obtains strips on irregularities.
• Maintains charge requisitions on monitored patients
• Makes nursing personnel aware of need for replacement of patient electrodes and/or newly monitored patients to be connected.
• Maintains safe and effective operation of the Monitoring Console at all times.
• Ensures that paper loaders are full.
• Monitors assigned telemetry console.
• Obtains monitor strips at the start of each shift, interprets strip, puts date and time on each strip, and places it on flow sheet.
• Participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.
• Provides a verbal report to relief persons and gives a patient report to oncoming technicians.
• Verifies and adjusts alarm limits as established for the levels appropriate to the individual patient.
• Verifies alarms are on at all times.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Free Employee parking
• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire
• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)
• Paid Time Off
• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period
• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance
• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees