Telemetry Tech
Altru Health

Location:
Altru Hospital1200 S.Columbia Rd.Grand Forks, ND 58201

Pay Range: $16.26 - $24.38

Summary:
Work Schedule/Hours:
- 32 hours per week
- Day/Evening rotation (7am-7pm, 11am-11pm and 3pm-11pm)
- Every third weekend (7am-7pm)
- 1 winter and 1 summer holiday per year.

The Telemetry Tech monitors the electrical activity of patients' heart rhythms through a central monitoring station in the hospital setting. They are responsible for identifying and reporting changes in heart rhythms to assigned nursing staff.

Essential Job Functions:

• Monitors telemetry central. Detects, analyzes, records, and reports any rhythm changes. Functions as a resource to nursing staff for rhythm analysis.
  
• Reads, interprets, and sends rhythm strips to each unit for nurse review and documentation.
  
• Serves as a resource to bedside staff for applying telemetry monitors, maintenance of monitors and leads, and troubleshooting problems regarding telemetry monitoring
  
• Monitors telemetry orders and communicates changes of patient's telemetry order status to the direct care team.
  
• Advises direct care team of unsatisfactory outcomes and patient concerns
  
• Prepares and maintains telemetry Kardex
  
• Communicates accurate and thorough patient information to nursing staff and providers and assures that nursing staff and providers communicate pertinent patient information to telemetry central.
  
• Performs triaging process for telemetry central when indicated according to standard work
  
• Maintains telemetry equipment, reporting any technical issues per policy. Tracks telemetry devices to assure location is known. Cleans telemetry equipment per standard operating procedure.
  
• Other Duties as assigned
  

Certification:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) | American Heart Association (AHA) | Within 90 days of Start Date | Learning Management System
  

Education:

• Required: High School

Physical Demands :

• Sit: Frequently (34-66%)
• Stand: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Walk: Frequently (34-66%)
• Stoop/Bend: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Reach: Frequently (34-66%)
• Crawl: Not Applicable
• Squat/Crouch/Kneel: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Twist: Occasionally (5-33%)
• Handle/Finger/Feel: Continuously (67-100%)
• See: Continuously (67-100%)
• Hear: Continuously (67-100%)

Weight Demands:

• Lift -Floor to Waist Level: Sedentary (< 10 pounds)
• Carry: Sedentary (< 10 pounds)
• Push/Pull: Sedentary (< 10 pounds)
• Slide/Transfer: Sedentary (< 10 pounds)

Working Conditions:

• Indoor: Continuously (67-100%)
• Outdoor: Not Applicable
• Extreme Temperature: Not Applicable

Driving Requirement Definitions:

• Professional Drivers: Persons who drive as their main responsibility OR transport passengers or hazardous materials.
• Frequent Drivers: Persons whose main responsibility is not driving, but drive daily or almost daily.
• Occasional Drivers: Persons who drive from once per month to as frequently as once per week.
• Infrequent Drivers: Persons who are generally not expected to drive.

Driving Requirement for this position:
Infrequent Driver

Reference ID: R4565

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