What are the responsibilities and job description for the Unit Clerk / Monitor Tech position at Kansas Heart Hospital?
We are looking for both day shift - 7a - 7p full-time 3 x 12 hour shifts per week and night shift 7p - 7a part-time.
Job Title: Unit Clerk/Monitor Tech
Department: Telemetry/ICU
Job Function: Unit support, basic ECG interpretation and telemetry monitoring.
Job Qualifications:
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
- Medical terminology strongly preferred.
- Coordinate outside testing and arrangement of transportation for patients
- Successful completion of Basic ECG course.
- Ability to multitask.
- Ability to interact effectively with all contacts. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have the ability to work independently.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Promote positive guest relations while performing receptionist and clerical duties.
- Maintain inventory of designated supplies and utilize computer extensively.
- Must be competent in basic ECG interpretation and able to detect arrhythmias via continuous monitoring. Interprets rhythms and arrhythmias.
- Competent in operating telemetry monitoring system including knowledge and ability to set up and monitor alarms.
- Assure telemetry monitors are receiving proper signals.
- Report all changes in heart rate/rhythm to appropriate nurse.
- Document status of electrocardiography in the patient care area.
- Assist with monitoring unit charges and maintain log books.
- Perform tasks as assigned.
Duties for Second Unit Clerk:
- Be the primary admission clerk at all units.
- Retrieve previous records from medical records.
- Relieve the Unit Clerks in both units for their 15-minute breaks and meal break.
- Clean refrigerators in ICU and Telemetry.
- Be located in Intermediate to answer the phones, run specimen to lab, etc. on the night they are open.
- Assist with transferring patients over from Intermediate or ICU to Telemetry.
- Place reports such as x-ray, ultrasound, and lab reports on the charts.
- File new progress notes or order sheets for the next day in the patient charts.
- Assist Grand Central at 6:00 a.m. when more than one patient arrives at that time.
- Restock cubby drawers with education materials.
- Check the inpatient/outpatient status to make sure the Important Message was signed on admission and signed the evening before on those patients expected to be dismissed the next day.
- Restock empty rooms in ICU.
