Overview:
Critical Illness Recovery Hospital
Telemetry Technician/Monitor Technician - PRN Dayshift
Hours: 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
Pay: $24.00 per hour
Location: Pontiac, Michigan (Select Specialty Hospital – Oakland)
Select Specialty Hospital is located in Pontiac on Woodward Avenue. As a 30-bed Critical Illness Recovery Hospital, we treat medically complex patients who need more support before starting their road to recovery. All of our patient rooms are private, as we believe this helps in creating a safe, relaxed, and collaborative environment for healing. We have specialized programs such as pulmonology, wound care, infection prevention, and physician rehab. These specialized programs, along with a team of trained and highly competent clinicians, gives our patients, included medically complex patients, exactly what they need to heal. Typically patients stay with us for 25-30 days, allowing our team to build rapport with patients and their families, which ultimately supports our patients recovery.
Our mission is to provide an exceptional patient care experience that promotes healing and recovery in a compassionate environment. Each employee plays a vital role in doing that by living our cultural behaviors - celebrating success, owning the future, being patient-centered, creating change, thinking first and building trust.
Do you love the challenge of working in a dynamic environment? Are you passionate about delivering an excellent experience to your team? If you answered 'yes', consider an opportunity with us!
Responsibilities:
You will deliver superior quality in all that you do and you will treat others as they wish to be treated. You are a results-oriented team player who is resourceful in overcoming obstacles. You are an inventive problem solver who thrives in a dynamic environment.
You will assume responsibility for continuously watching and ensuring appropriate and timely responses to alarms. Verifying correct identification of basic rhythms, lethal rhythms and artifact; maintaining EKG monitor alarms and responding to all alarms as needed.
- Continuously observing all monitors assigned and responding to alarms promptly and appropriately.
- Completing EKG interpretations including: rate, regularity, PRI, QRS, QTI, QTc, ST segment, wave form alterations, and rhythm interpretation.
- Ensuring strip interpretations are validated by RN.
Qualifications:
You are attentive to detail and organized, focused on being a customer-service oriented team member.
Minimum requirements:
- Must complete and pass EKG class for Monitor Techs and required competencies on education platform within 30 days of start date in position and pass other tests/competencies as required by Select Medical.
Preferred qualifications that will make you successful:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Preferred background as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)*, Licensed Paramedic or RN nursing student with EKG training (*LPNs are limited to working as telemetry tech only.)