Cardiac Arrhythmia Technician

Job Overview:

Community Medical Center is looking for a part-time Cardiac Arrhythmia Technician to work 24 hours in a night time shift.

Qualifications:

• High school graduate or equivalent,
• BLS through American Heart Association
• Successful completion of all Orientation Programs
• Telemetry and/or successful completion of a cardiac dysrhythmia course

Scheduling Requirements:

• Part-Time
• Night-Shift
• Every other weekend required, rotating holiday schedule

Essential Functions:

• Prepares and educates patients on telemetry transmitter, telemetry monitoring,
• Uses and understands the principles of growth and development to assess each patient's age-specific needs and provide age-specific treatment and care,
• Assists new employees in the policy and procedures of the department,
• Supports the philosophy, objectives, mission and vision of Community Medical Center,
• Demonstrates compliance when placing patient alarms in suspend and resuming alarms upon patient s return to the unit
• Performs transmitter to channel number checks daily
• Notifies RN of episodes of class II arrhythmias and documents appropriately
• Sets high and low cardiac alarm limits and documents settings on all strips
• Performs the essential functions of a telemetry runner
• Recognizes class I and class II arrhythmias and notifies RN through urgent broadcast/urgent call and documents appropriately
• Recognizes significance of a prolonged PR interval, widened QRS complex and prolonged QT interval
• Recognizes the significance of changes in the ST/T segment: ST/T elevations and ST/T depressions
• Documents all elements required for cardiac rhythm strip interpretation
• Demonstrates competency in arrhythmia interpretation
• Demonstrates competency in proper application of telemetry transmitter using five lead system