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

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

**Department:** Central Telemetry

**Schedule:** Full-time, nights with an every 3rd weekend rotation

**Hours:** 7pm to 7am

**Pay:** $18+ per hour _(Offers are based on years of experience and equity)_

**Shift Differentials:** Available for night, weekend, and additional shifts

**Location:** St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville

3400 East Racine Street

Janesville, WI 53546

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:

3016000026 Central Telemetery

Work Shift:

Night Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

36

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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