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WI-St. Agnes Hospital
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Highlights:
Department: Central Telemetry
Schedule: Part time 20 hours per week on the night shift (11:00 pm - 7:30 am). This position includes every other weekend and a holiday rotation.
Starting Pay: $18+ per hour
Shift Differentials: available for evening, night, and weekend shifts
Location: This is an onsite position located atSt. Agnes Hospital 430 E. Division St. Fond du Lac, WI 54935
This is a part time, benefits eligible role on the night shift. Candidates will go through EKG training and experience is not required!
Benefit Information:
Comprehensive Benefits Package
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life
Income based medical insurance premium discounts
HSA/FSA options
Short and Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO & PTO Donation Program
Daily Pay for qualifying positions
403b/401k retirement plans
Tuition Reimbursement and Discounts with participating schools
Commitment to employee wellness through our EAP
Free on-site fitness centers at select locations
Job Summary:
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.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
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.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
EXPERIENCE
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
Department:
3016000038 CENTRAL TELEMETRY
Work Shift:
Night Shift (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
20
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