Monitor Technician, Night Shift, Heart and Vascular Unit (HVU)

Adventist HealthCare • Silver Spring, MD

2d • $19 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

White Oak Medical Center seeks to hire a Monitor Technician for our Heart and Vascular Unit (HVU) who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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

Nice To Haves

• One-year acute clinical experience preferred.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED