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Staff Position

Monitor Tech
SSM Health St. Louis
Lake Saint Louis, MO

$21-32/hour

Overview

  • Start DateASAP
  • Facility Information
    Faith-Based Healthcare HospitalShort Term Acute Care179 bedsEpic Systems Corporation

Pay

Estimated pay
$21-32/hour

Description

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Runs strip at time of admission, every 4 hours, and with any rhythm change.
  • Measures PR, QRS, and QT and interprets rhythm accurately when a strip is run.
  • Each strip is signed with first initial, full last name and position.
  • Tubes completed rhythm verification form to appropriate unit in a timely manner. Posts strips on telemetry log for all units.
  • Notifies appropriate unit and staff for any changes in baseline rhythm, including heart rate, or potentially lethal rhythms in adults or children according to protocol.
  • Ensures that alarms are on at all times and set at appropriate limits for adults and children according to protocol.
  • Notifies appropriate staff when electrodes or batteries need to be checked, replaced or changed.
  • Demonstrates awareness of the effect certain procedures or medications have on a patient’s rhythm.
  • Runs continuous strip for sustained VT, V-fib, asystole and bradycardia less than 40 per minute until code team arrives or otherwise notified.
  • Maintains telemetry logs, current patient information, does transmitter/SPO2 inventory per shift, and telemetry charges.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

  • High school diploma or equivalent

EXPERIENCE

  • One year experience

If you love working in a team orientated group, love technology, analyzing situations and being challenge by providing care behind the scene, please apply

Ensures continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythms by observing cardiac monitors; maintains all records and reports of rhythm strips in accordance with the established nursing standards and procedures.
Tyler Argo
Tyler Argo

Facility

SSM Health Saint Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

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SSM Health Saint Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
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  • Faith-Based Healthcare Hospital
  • Short Term Acute Care
  • 179 beds
  • Epic Systems Corporation
ADDRESS100 Medical PlzLake Saint Louis, MO 63367
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Employer

SSM Health

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About
SSM Health has grown to be one of the largest integrated health systems in the country, because leadership, administration and providers work closely together to find solutions to the most pressing needs in medical care today. Collectively, our knowledge and resources are combined to innovate, optimize workflows and allow for better care delivery and patient interactions. Physicians and leadership engage in regular discussions designed to standardize practices that yield better outcomes across our system. Physicians, providers and health care leaders seeking the stability and resources of a large, reputable integrated health system, as well as the collegiality and respect of peers and the rewards of practicing in a faith-based organization, choose SSM Health as their ideal practice setting. SSM Health's 23 hospitals, more than 290+ physician offices and outpatient care sites, and 10 post-acute facilities offer vast opportunities to shape the future of health care throughout Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
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