Monitor Technician

Job description

Inova Center for Personalized Health is looking for a dedicated Monitor Technician to join the team. This role will be full-time night shift 36 hours per week 7:00PM to 7:00AM with weekends
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.

Job Responsibilities:
• Maintains rhythm strips and monitoring logs in accordance with unit policies and as evidenced by random audits of log books.
• Notifies nurse immediately of loss of clear telemetry signal and arranges for coverage when leaving monitor room.
• Recognizes, records and informs nurse of abnormalities/changes in patient waveforms.
• Troubleshoots and maintains equipment and supplies.
• Admits and discharges patients out of telemetry system in accordance with unit policy.
• Participates in unit quality improvement initiatives as evidenced by attendance at staff meetings and verbalizing understanding of unit initiatives.
• Pages STAT to Registered Nurse and healthcare team members for patients with life threatening arrhythmias and initiates MSET per unit policy.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:
• Education - High School or GED

Preferred Experience:
• Experience - Prior telemetry monitoring experience/EKG monitoring in a hospital setting