Tele ICU Tech

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

5d • Remote

About The Position

Our Tele Critical Care department wants to add a Tele ICU Tech to the collaborative team. This role provides support to critical care nurses and physicians in the remote care of ICU patient populations across the BJC System. It enables the critical care team to provide immediate care and surveillance to ICU level admissions through rapid waveform detection, medical record review, admission into Tele ICU platform. The role involves reviewing and documenting laboratory data, ventilator data, and compliance of best practice protocols of care directed at improved outcomes. It also collaborates with the bedside support teams (unit clerks and monitor techs) to ensure life saving devices are appropriately applied and reviewed.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• <2 years experience
• No Supervisor Experience

Nice To Haves

• Admin Experience
• Medical Terminology Knowledge
• Associate's Degree - Allied Health

Responsibilities

• Maintains patient census for assigned HSO’s to facilitate ICU level surveillance and use of clinical decision support tools.
• Assist in the management of patient information across the Tele ICU Center.
• Applies waveform detection to ensure immediate care and continued surveillance is provided to all ICU admissions across multiple BJC HSO’s.
• Identifies and reports to Tele ICU RN electronic trending issues on admission and on an ongoing basis.
• Retrieves patient data from clients multiple clinical information systems and enters it in eCare Manager Application (eCM) timely and with accuracy to allow Tele-ICU clinicians to diagnose and facilitate the remote treatment of patients.
• Continuous chart review to gather and validate patient demographics, laboratory data, APACHE data elements, and best practice protocol standards of care.
• Contribute to APACHE data collection by Tele ICU team of all ICU admission to support benchmarking of quality indicators including but not limited to mortality, length of stay, ventilator days and best practice protocol compliance.
• Provide timely and professional communication to critical care physicians and nurses.
• Ensure electronic systems are maintained in the remote monitoring center to provide continuous surveillance of ICU level patients in state of the art applications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED