Nursing Station Technician/Monitor Tech - Heart Care Unit

Fairview Health Services•Maplewood, MN

15d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is looking for a Nursing Station Technician/Monitor Tech to join our St. John’s Hospital team in Maplewood, MN. This position is 56 hours per two weeks on the Day shift, for 8 hour shifts, every other weekend. This hospital provides a warm, inviting atmosphere and humble staff. Innovative technology, combined with the expertise of our specialists, nurses and staff, contribute to our innovative healing environment and personal, diligent health care delivery. We are committed to delivering outstanding health care in our growing community! Our 184 bed facility offers a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. About This Unit: Looking for an opportunity to gain experience on a cardiovascular unit? This is a 33 bed Heart Care unit with rapid turnaround for patients that stay on average for 2.5 days. Our typical patient population consists of patients with observable chest pain, ruling out anything cardiac related, stroke patients, and alcohol withdrawal. We prepare and recover our patients for stress tests, echocardiograms, and cardiac procedures including diagnostic angiograms/stent placement, ablations, pacemakers and ICD insertions, and open heart surgery. Our unit cares for many patients with heart failure and cardiac arrythmias needing IV drips. Work under direction of nursing personnel to provide patient care while functioning as a nursing assistant and as a health unit coordinator. Duties may include: patient cares, vitals, bathing, feeding, answering call lights, transporting, care of environment (by stocking, cleaning, and maintaining rooms) and use of equipment, phones, clerical, transcription, and coordinate the flow of communication on the unit. May work as a patient care attendant. Observes cardiac monitors, detecting and reporting abnormalities that may occur in the patient’s EKG status. The NST does not work autonomously but under the direction of the professional nurse. They may or may not be given a patient care assignment based on unit needs and the discretion of the manager / charge nurse.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification required. Ontrack participants much be able to acquire BLS certification upon completion of the OnTrack program
Six months of recent direct care experience in a long term, home care or acute care setting. (Appropriate roles may include, Nursing Assistant, PCA, Resident Assistant or Emergency Room Technician)
Or
Current enrollment in an LPN, RN or Nurse Practitioner program, and completion of one (1) semester of clinical rotation within the program
Or
Current certification on the MN Nursing Assistant Registry upon hire. This requirement does not need to be maintained throughout employment and is not required if subsequently transferring into another Nursing Assistant or Nursing Station Tech or Nursing Station Attendant position
EKG Monitoring Course (provided by MHealth Fairview)

Nice To Haves

Telemetry reading experience
1 year experience of transcription/unit coordinator experience

Responsibilities

Performs delegated nursing functions to assigned patients including personal care, ambulation, exercise, nutrition, specimen collection and vital signs
Performs special procedures (eg: skin care) as defined by patient care unit practice guidelines
Observes patients and reports any changes in status to appropriate staff
Communicates effectively with all members of the health care team
Performs environmental and other responsibilities as assigned
Maintains the medical record
Schedules patient tests and procedures
Maintains unit communication systems and central desk area
Receives all patients, family members, visitors and other members of the health team
Maintains unit stock/supplies/equipment
Participates in staff development
Demonstrates ability to provide care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level and cultural differences of population served
Fulfills all organizational requirements
Fosters a culture of improvement, efficiency and innovative thinking.
Performs other duties as assigned