• Telemetry Technician - Per Diem

    Select Medical (Chicago, IL)


    Overview

    **Position:** Telemetry Technician

    **Schedule:** Per Diem/PRN, 12 hour shifts, AM and PM opportunities available

     

    Compensation: $24 per hour

    _plus shift differential for night and/or weekend shifts_

    **Rush Specialty Hospital,** a partnership between Select Medical and RUSH, is a 100-bed facility that combines a critical illness recovery hospital and an acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital.

     

    Our team is committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery as well as exceptional rehabilitation services tobest address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries,spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.

    Why Join Us:

    + **Start Strong:** Extensive orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.

    + **Opportunity for Advancement:** Demonstrate your skills and dedication which could lead to potential full-time opportunities

    + **Foster Well-being:** We offer benefits which support the financial, work/life and emotional well-being of you and your family members. **Part time/Per Diem** positions are eligible for 401k based on reaching 1,000 hours within their first anniversary or subsequent calendar year. We also offer our employee assistance program to part time employees.

    + **Ease the Burden** : Company Paid Parking

    + **Your Impact Matters:** Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care

    Responsibilities

    + 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

    Minimum Qualifications:

    + 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

    + 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.)

     

    Additional Data

     

    _Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans_

     

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    **Job ID** _333504_

    **Experience (Years)** _1_

    **Category** _Health Technologist/Technicians - Health Technologists and Technicians_

    **Street Address** _516 South Loomis Street_