Job Description

**It's more than a career, it's a calling.**

WI-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison

**Worker Type:**

Regular

**Job Highlights:**

**Department:** Monitoring Center

**Location:** SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital – Madison

700 South Park Street

Madison, WI 53715

**Position Details:**

**Weekly Hours:** 24 hours a week

**Shift:** Nights

**General Job Responsibilities**

+ **Machine Monitoring** : Operate and oversee medical equipment, ensuring functionality and safety. Respond promptly to alarms and auditory signals in a high-noise environment.
+ **Communication** : Answer incoming calls professionally and efficiently, providing accurate information and directing inquiries appropriately.
+ **Discharge Preparation** : Assist in preparing discharge documentation and coordinating logistics, ensuring timely and accurate processing without direct patient care responsibilities.

**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

+ No experience required

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

+ None

**Department:**

3016000007 Pt Monitoring Center (PMC)

**Work Shift:**

Night Shift (United States of America)

**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**

24

**Benefits:**

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

+ **Paid Parental Leave** **:** we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
+ **Flexible Payment Options:** our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
+ **Upfront Tuition Coverage** : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

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