Monitor Tech

UPMC Jameson is hiring a Monitor Technician to join the Central Monitoring Team! This full-time role will work both 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. with no travel required. Weekend and holiday work is required, and holiday work is on a rotating schedule. No on call is required.

• Assist with coordinating transfers.
• Notify Primary Care Nurse and/or Clinical Supervisor or Charge Nurse of changes.
• General Secretarial Duties.
• Provide copy of shift summary and send to appropriate unit of remote monitored patients.
• Utilize monitor pause to ensure right monitor, right patient, and right room.
• Placement of, or send to appropriate remote unit, daily monitor renewal labels.
• Daily monitoring charge in Star system.
• Cardiac monitoring.
• Interact with families and visitors.
• Assist with discharges.
• Interpretation of cardiac rhythms.
• Answer Telephones and deliver messages.
• At the end of 3-11 shifts, send the past 24 hour record to the appropriate unit of remote monitored patients.
• Documentation of rhythms by printing end of shift strips, include shift summary and changes.
• Assist with tear down of discharge charts.
• Verbally report to incoming ICT.
• Assist with transcription of orders if skill level permits.
• Communication, internal and external.
• Management of patients with Cardiac disease and knowledge of appropriate care of the patient with a Cardiac related complaint.