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Form of workJob Summary: Monitors telemetry patients, ensuring telemetry is applied correctly.
Education/Experience: High School Diploma or GED General Studies Required, Prior Clinical Experience in a hospital setting Required *Or successful completion of an approved EKG class.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Operates cardiovascular diagnostic or therapeutic equipment. Interprets and documents cardiac rhythms. Responds to alarms promptly and appropriately. Adheres to arrhythmia protocols. Ensures that patients have telemetry applied correctly. Assurance Ensures that all equipment is clean and in working order. Troubleshoots basic problems with equipment and refers it for resolution if unable to resolve the problem.
- Educates staff and/or patients on cardiology technical procedures and equipment. Teaches telemetry principles to patients and family as needed. Precepts new telemetry technicians as necessary. Reports: Prepares related reports, inputs test results into database and documents procedures as appropriate.
- Collaborates with all members of the interdisciplinary health care team to promote patient safety and meet medical emergency needs. Reports problems, variances, etc., to the charge nurse with written follow-up to the nurse manager.
- Upholds a professional working relationship at all times and adheres to department rules. Practices teamwork and adheres to Standards of Behavior.
Physical requirements: include occasional sitting, stooping, kneeling, crawling, frequent standing, walking, and reaching.
- Medium physical force is required (exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects).
- Visual acuity for accurate documentation, reading reports, and patient assessment.
- Ability to speak and hear is required for effective communication with patients, visitors, physicians, and staff. - Sense of touch for patient assessment.
- Manual finger dexterity for moving and utilizing equipment and supplies.
- Ability to effectively manage a high stress environment resulting from emergent situations.
- Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
