Monitor Tech

Overview

Join our team as a night shift, full-time, Central Telemetry Monitor Technician in Albuquerque, NM.

• We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
• We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
• We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.

• Lovelace Medical Center is an acute care hospital with 263 licensed beds, providing comprehensive care, including around-the-clock emergency care, surgical services, non-invasive robotic spine surgery, stroke care, radiology, and oncology services.

• Provide advanced ECG monitoring with a focus on assessment of ECG strips and arrhythmia interpretation.
• May also be responsible for monitoring alerts from patient wearable devices, including escalation to a Virtual RN.
• Possess troubleshooting skills to recognize monitoring the problems, identify probable causes, and seek solutions to correct the problem.
• Identify and respond to potentially life-threatening rhythm changes, initiate codes, record rhythms during code, and continuous EKG monitoring with accurate interpretation of cardiac rhythms and dysrhythmias and interval measurements.
• Appropriately responding to all monitor alarms.
• Must be able to manage multiple technology platforms and develop collaborative relationships with other staff via remote platforms.

Job Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Must complete the cardiac monitoring exam.
• BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care.
• Ability to demonstrate arrhythmia recognition.

• Associate degree in a related field.
• One (1) year in the specialty area, rhythm recognition skill set.