Monitor Technician

UPMC Western Maryland is seeking a part-time, observant Monitor Technician to join their team of life-changers This is a 20 hr/wk evening/night shift position that will include rotating weekends and holidays. As a Monitor Technician, you’ll provide continuous visual surveillance of numerous patient cardiac rhythm monitors and notify appropriate nursing personnel immediately of changes and/or life-threatening dysrhythmias. Performs quality EKGs. Place and scan Holter monitors. Transtelephonic Pacemaker Clinic (if cross trained). **Responsibilities:** + Promotes and maintains desired public, interpersonal, and interdepartmental relationships and patient confidentiality. + Demonstrates a working knowledge of the physical and electronic character of the diagnostic instrumentation used and must demonstrate equipment troubleshooting skills. + If cross trained, conducts transtelephonic pacemaker function testing including scheduling and billing components. + Responsible for personal job skill development and maintaining clinical expertise. + Maintains certification in CPR once oriented. + Attends in-service education and skill development courses as offered. + Is available to cover subsequent shift if staffing is inadequate. + Accurately manages ECG tracing/order matching in computerized equipment for physician on line reading and upload to electronic medical record. + Completes billing for technical component of ECGs and Holters. + Explains the nature and rationale of examinations to patients/hospital personnel in understandable terms. + Completes a brief patient history prior to Holter monitor procedures. + Properly positions the patient to perform the exam and make any specific preparations required to assure thoroughness and accuracy of the study. + Supports peer personnel in daily work assignments maintaining a constant awareness of the nature and volume of work and takes necessary actions to expedite completion of procedures. + Cleans equipment on a daily basis. + Stocks supply areas and distributes inventory. + Notifies key personnel or manager of need for supplies and reports need for equipment service and repair to manager or bio-med medical department. + Responsible for receiving and accurately completing and processing requests for ECGs and Holter monitors. + Ability to push ECGs machines on carts with wheels in order to perform studies in various areas throughout the hospital. + Provides visual surveillance of numerous cardiac monitors simultaneously while maintaining 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular or atrial ectopic, normal or unknown). + Maintains alarms per policy. + Recognizes and immediately notifies appropriate hospital personnel of changes in a patient's rhythm or life threatening dysrhythmia and documents changes on patient record system. + If cross trained, scans Holter monitor tapes with 100% accuracy in terms of dysrhythmia recognition and classification (ventricular and atrial ectopic, pacemaker, normal and unknown). + High school or equivalent. + Experience in Cardiac Telemetry monitoring or EKG desired. **Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:** + CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire. + Cardiac Technician, Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician or Paramedic background desired. + Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) + **UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran**