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Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Monitor Tech, you will be responsible for continuous observation and analysis of patients' cardiac rhythms to detect and report changes.

Every day you will meticulously monitor EKG strips, identify arrhythmias, measure intervals, and promptly communicate critical findings to nursing staff and healthcare providers, ensuring accurate documentation.

To be successful, you will demonstrate sharp observational skills, a thorough understanding of cardiac rhythms, and the ability to act quickly and precisely under pressure, crucial for patient safety and timely intervention.

+ PATIENT'S CHART:

+ Prepares chart for admits.

+ Prepares chart packets for unit use.

+ Maintains chart in proper, complete order.

+ Adds forms, as required.

+ Places reports on charts.

+ Reviews chart for signatures and completeness.

+ Reviews orders for completion.

+ Returns complete charts to medical records within 24 hours of patients discharge.

+ Prepares chart and all thinned parts of chart to accompany patient for all internal transfers.

+ REVIEWS PHYSICIAN'S ORDERS, FOLLOWING UP AS INDICATED:

+ Enters orders via designated computer system.

+ Notifies Licensed staff/Registered Nurse of new orders.

+ Faxes medication orders to Pharmacy.

+ COLLABORATES WITH NURSING PERSONNEL:

+ Enters appropriate Intervention Order sets and interventions into Hospital Information System (HIS).

+ Maintains confidentiality of patient information at all times.

+ Maintains a safe and clean environment.

+ Complies with hospital dress code.

+ Assists with orientation of new personnel as directed.

+ Approach the work of the unit with initiative and self-direction.

+ ACTS AS UNIT RECEPTIONIST:

+ To assist physicians and visitors.

+ Answers all telephone within the first three rings stating department, your name, and How may I help you'

+ MAINTAINS RECORDS:

+ Maintains and tracks all loose documents and maintains a record of same.

+ KEEPS FLOOR CENSUS UP-TO-DATE VIA HIS:

+ Enters transfers to unit into Admitting module of Hospital Information System (HIS) Enters discharge into Admitting module of HIS.

Job Requirements

Required

+ High School GED General Studies or Equivalenttechnical training, upon hire or

+ High School Graduate General Studies or Equivalenttechnical training, upon hire and

+ Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Preferred

+ Acute care

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.

Where You'll Work

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here (https://www.dignityhealth.org/central-california/locations/memorial-hospital) to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

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Pay Range

$24.00 - $29.90 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.