Miami Beach, FL30+ days ago
Position Responsibilities: • Gives/accepts shift report to provide accurate and current patient information with each shift change • Assists with the answering of unit telephones, patient call lights and/or visitor inquiries in a professional and courteous manner • Keeps assigned work area neat and clean at all times • Provides for the safe and proper disposal of monitor batteries • Pulls six (6) seconds strips every four (4) hours - or as often as needed, with documentation of rate and rhythm to capture arrhythmias and/or changes in the patients rhythm • Immediately reports any change to the charge nurse • Ensures patients safety by accurately identifying patients name and room number on post strips • Ensures that central screens are monitored at all times • Facilitates proper utilization of telemetry by alerting the charge nurse of missing orders and/or prolonged monitoring of stable rhythms • Immediately informs Biomedical Engineering of any malfunctioning equipment and maintains appropriate records of repair • Communicates and coordinates with environmental services when area needs cleaning and/or dead battery receptacle is in need of emptying • Cooperates in temporary reassignment to other units/tasks when necessary to meet patient care needs • Assists in orientation of new staff members • Keeps alarms on at all times with appropriate high and low settings • Assures that the assigned telemetry box is on the assigned patient; knows location of all unit transmitter boxes and includes in change of shift report • Knows location of all monitored patients at all times • Understands normal parameters for safe monitoring of patient (newborn, infant, children, adolescent, adult and geriatric) and collaborates with the charge nurse for individual settings • Changes batteries and/or leads of patient monitoring devices as needed • Informs Registered Nurse if leads need to be changed on patient • Cleans telemetry packs when patient is discharged • Suspends alarms when patient leaves the unit and resumes as patient returns. • BLS certification required • High school graduate or equivalent • Successful completion of didactic and clinical base EKG examinations • Score of 90% or better on rhythm test • Previous experience as Patient Care Tech, Nursing Assistant, and Home Health Aide preferred but not required.