Summary
Job Description:
Monitor Tech
Multiple Positions | Various Shifts
BHCOR-Progressive Care Unit I Corbin, KY
PCU is a 20 bed unit capable of monitoring patients via central telemetry 24 hours a day. PCU serves as a place for the monitoring and care of patients age 16 to geriatric with moderate or potentially severe physiologic instability, requiring technical support but not necessarily artificial life support.
The Monitor Tech is responsible for continuous monitoring and interpretation of cardiac rhythms, documenting and promptly communicating any significant arrhythmias to the appropriate clinical personnel. Assists the nursing team by detecting changes in cardiac rate, rhythm, NIBP, arterial line readings, and oxygen saturation, ensuring timely communication of these changes to the relevant clinical staff.
Description:
Monitor, interpret, and document cardiac rhythms, vital signs, and telemetry data; promptly report changes or abnormalities.
Assist with cardiac monitoring procedures and maintain appropriate alarm settings.
Enter patient telemetry data on admission and maintain accurate monitoring records.
Answer and route calls, respond to call lights, and communicate effectively with nurses, physicians, telemetry staff, patients, and visitors.
Troubleshoot, maintain, clean, and disinfect telemetry equipment; report equipment issues as needed.
Maintain accurate patient census, monitor inventory, and ensure proper documentation of rhythm strips and telemetry supplies.
Follow safety, infection control, emergency preparedness, and regulatory requirements.
Attend required training and support Baptist Health's mission, values, and culture of safety.
Requirements:
High School Diploma or GED required.
No prior experience required.
BLS certification required; Life-Threatening Arrhythmia Training and Aegis/DY training required within established timeframes.
Ability to learn and perform cardiac monitoring and telemetry-related duties.
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- No prior experience required
- BLS certification
- Life-Threatening Arrhythmia Training (within established timeframes)
- Aegis/DY training (within established timeframes)
- Ability to learn and perform cardiac monitoring and telemetry-related duties
- Attend required training and support hospital policies/culture
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
