Location:Gardner, Massachusetts
Posted Date:03/06/2024
Job Requirements
- High School graduate or equivalent.
- EKG certification or experience doing cardiac testing is preferred
- Curent BLS certification required.
Required Skills
- Basic computer skills.
- Moderate written and verbal skills.
- Ability to use cardiology equipment.
- Greeting and checking in patients. Reviewing the testing orders and printing schedules
- Reminder calls to the patients as needed
- Clerical work copying, filing, faxing and scanning tests
- Systematically gathers and evaluates relevant information and data from the patient interview and/or from patient information sources.
- Assures that the patient exams, tests and/or procedures are consistent with the nature of patient’s needs and orders.
- Identifies variations from expected findings and/or test values.
- Takes appropriate actions when variations are identified.
- Plans for and provides patient teachings.
- Identifies situations when it is appropriate to involve the family and/or significant other and/or friends in patient’s education.
- Prioritizes requests based on the nature of request and the condition and/or situation of the patients.
- Assesses and reassesses the patient’s condition.
- Coordinates and communicates with other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive patient service and care.
- When appropriate, delegates to other healthcare professionals.
- Works together to complete assignments with departmental and healthcare team members.
- Places electrode in correct positions to obtain a quality EKG recording and inputs patient demographic information into the machine.
- Performs non-routine EKG's, such as fifteen and eighteen lead, and EKG's with magnets.
- Inputs patient demographic information into machine.
- Reports abnormal patterns to physician or nurse.
- Attaches electrodes in correct position to maximize quality tracing.
- Instructs patients in the use of recorder and diary.
- Correctly sets up monitor.
- Prints two copies of EKG's, (one marked as preliminary and the second for interpretation).
- Copies reports and directs them to ordering physicians.
- Files report per department procedure.
- Operates equipment per department policy and manufacturer's recommendations.
- Reports malfunctioning equipment to the Clinical Engineer.
- Effectively troubleshoots problems.
- Performing routine EKG’s, applying and downloading holter monitors.
- Assisting the providers with stress testing.
- Setting up Echocardiogram patients as needed and taking blood pressures.
- Checking in the Cardiology testing patients.
- Copying, scanning and filing of the tests.
- Editing and downloading the EKGs from the machines
- Cleaning equipment after each use.