Telemonitor Technician

SSM Health • Mount Vernon, IL

5d • Onsite

About The Position

It's more than a career, it's a calling. IL-SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mount Vernon Worker Type: Regular Job Highlights: Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. Clinical experience is preferred but not required, as comprehensive on-the-job training is provided. This role requires continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms with a high level of concentration, strong attention to detail, and the ability to promptly recognize and respond to changes in cardiac rate and rhythm. Department : Cardiac/ Tele- Monitor Schedule: Scheduled hours are 7:00am to 7:30pm on Saturday and Sunday each week. This is a weekend position. Holiday rotation is required. Apply today. SSM Health –We bring out the incredible in you, everyday.

Requirements

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
• No experience required
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Nice To Haves

• Clinical experience is preferred but not required, as comprehensive on-the-job training is provided.

Responsibilities

• Ensures continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms by observing cardiac monitors; maintains all records and reports of rhythm strips in accordance with the established nursing standards and procedures.
• Runs strip at time of admission, every 4 hours, and with any rhythm change.
• Measures PR, QRS, and QT and interprets rhythm accurately when a strip is run.
• Tubes completed rhythm verification form to appropriate unit in a timely manner.
• Posts strips on telemetry log for all units.
• Notifies appropriate unit and staff for any changes in baseline rhythm, including heart rate, or potentially lethal rhythms in adults or children according to protocol.
• Ensures that alarms are on at all times and set at appropriate limits for adults and children according to protocol.
• Notifies appropriate staff when electrodes or batteries need to be checked, replaced or changed.
• Demonstrates awareness of the effect certain procedures or medications have on a patient’s rhythm.
• Runs continuous strip for sustained VT, V-fib, asystole and bradycardia less than 40 per minute until code team arrives or otherwise notified.
• Maintains telemetry logs, current patient information, does transmitter/SPO2 inventory per shift, and telemetry charges.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

What This Job Offers

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