Monitor Technician

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$19.00/hr - $21.00/hr

At Insight Hospital and Medical Center
- Chicago, we believe there is a better way to provide quality healthcare while achieving health equity. Our Chicago location looks forward to working closely with our neighbors and residents, to build a full‑service community hospital in the Bronzeville area of Chicago; creating a comprehensive plan to increase services and meet community needs. With a growing team that is dedicated to delivering world‑class service to everyone we meet, it is our mission to deliver the most compassionate, loving, expert, and impactful care in the world to our patients.

Be a part of the Insight Chicago team that provides PATIENT CARE SECOND TO NONE! If you would like to be a part of our future team, please apply now!

The monitor technician works as a team member under the direction of the professional registered nurse to promote safe patient outcomes, especially with patients requiring telemetry monitoring. The monitor technician will observe, interpret and document cardiac rhythms as seen on the telemetry EKG monitors. The monitor technician ensures prompt discovery of changes in the heart rhythm and notifies appropriate staff members of such changes.

Activities of the monitor technician promote and improve service to patients, staff, and visitors at Insight Hospital.

These duties are performed in a highly confidential manner, following the mission, values, and behaviors of Insight Hospital and Medical Center, and the attributes of Careful Nursing. Employees are further expected to provide a high quality of care, service, and kindness toward all patients, staff, physicians, volunteers, and guests.

• Under the direction of the registered professional nurse performs all of the following activities as directed, based on the individual needs of the patient, incorporating the attributes of Careful Nursing.
  • Provides continuous EKG monitoring and interpretation for patients on telemetry.
  • Observes EKG rhythms on the telemetry monitor.
  • Interprets EKG rhythm and documents interpretation.
  • Runs strip for each CCU patient every two (2) hours and every four (4) hours for each Telemetry Unit patient, interprets strip, labels rhythm, and places strip in assigned location for review by patient's nurse.
• Adjusts or replaces EKG equipment as necessary for clear signals and optimal monitoring.
• Assures that all alarms are set and audible.
• Instructs patient on use and care of telemetry system, maintains the integrity of the telemetry system, orders and inventories the needed supplies.
• Notifies staff in a prompt and timely manner regarding changes in patient heart rate, rhythm, or other patient information.
• Provides documentation of change, placing rhythm strip in the medical record.
• Assists in Code Blue and other emergencies, cardioversion, and/or reprogramming of pacemakers by running EKG strips from the telemetry system as appropriate.
• Provides documentation of arterial and Swan‑Ganz waveforms in addition to hemodynamic profile (C.O., SVR, CI, etc.) for the medical record.
• Provides trending information from monitors as requested.
• Accurately labels all rhythm strips, indicates on the patient rhythm strip any drips, Do Not Resuscitate orders, and pacemakers.
• Maintains equipment and supplies for the telemetry system.
• Monitors equipment daily and assures ordering of supplies on a daily/weekly basis.
• Completes replacement orders weekly and obtains the signature of the Director.
• Documents the location of telemetry monitoring equipment each shift on the Telemetry Transmitter Location sheet, and completes monitor count.
• Cleans lead wires and transmitters after each patient use and returns them to storage.
• Arranges for sterilization of equipment as needed.
• Promptly notifies clinical technical services personnel of malfunction problems with…