Monitor Technician

Monitor Technician at Lifepoint Health

Job Overview

Monitor Technician role responsible for utilizing telemetry monitoring equipment to watch patients’ heart rhythms, respond to alarms, and report findings. Must collaborate with nursing staff and complete required competencies.

• Demonstrates respect, empathy, and self‑control in interactions with others.
• Provides a positive first impression, adheres to dress codes, and maintains a clean work area.
• Communicates effectively with patients, visitors, associates, and others.
• Resolving customer complaints with active listening and empathy.
• Maintains integrity, privacy, and confidentiality of patient information.
• Team player, offering praise, recognition, and encouragement.
• Acts as ambassador for Ottumwa Regional Health Center, caring for equipment efficiently.

• Assist with admissions, discharges, and transfers of patients for telemetry.
• Observe, listen, and respond to alarms; identify changes in heart rhythms.
• Obtain measurements from telemetry strips and report abnormalities.
• Collaborate with nurses to prioritize care.
• Complete required competencies and training within assigned time frame.
• Exercise safe judgment and demonstrate tact when interacting with patients and staff.
• Show flexibility and adaptability to operational changes.
• Attend 100% of mandatory in‑services.
• Identify and support department/organizational QI improvement opportunities.
• Adjust schedule to meet unit needs.
• Complete documentation for telemetry patients.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Basic computer skills.
• Detail oriented: follow directions from nurses and doctors.
• Understand electrical cardiac conduction system and rhythm recognition.

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Complete orientation and telemetry interpretation competency.
• Preferred: CNA, EMT‑B, CRRT, Unit Secretary, LPN, OR RN.

Prefer prior experience as a Monitor Technician; general healthcare experience required.

Entry level

Full‑time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community‑based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post‑acute care facilities.