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Monterey Park Hospital, located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, is searching for a Unit Secretary/Monitor Tech for our Telemetry Department. The position is Full Time,10-hour with variable shifts. Monterey Park Hospital is a 101 bed acute care community hospital. Monterey Park Hospital has provided our community with advanced medical and culturally sensitive healthcare services for over 50 years. This position reports to the Director of Telemetry.
Responsibilities: The Unit Secretary/Monitor Tech provides clerical assistance to the Nursing Unit. This position transcribes doctors’ orders, maintains patient charts, receives documents and follows-through with phone orders, provides general clerical support (filing, faxing, copying, sorting mail, ordering supplies, placing maintenance orders), and maintains unit statistics. This position will replace the Monitor Tech during breaks, meal periods, sick calls and vacation requests. The Monitor Tech position continuously monitors patient’s cardiac rhythms by reading, recognizing, and interpreting normal and abnormal rhythms, properly reports and documents patient’s rhythms, maintains and monitors proper functioning of the telemetry equipment including alarms. Ensures level of telemetry monitoring supplies is adequate at all times, maintains unit statistics for reports.
Qualifications: A. Minimum Education: High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
B. Minimum Experience: One year experience as Monitor Tech in an acute care hospital preferred.
C. Required Certification/Registration: Monitor Technician Certification required. Current BLS required.
D. Other: Proficiency in both written and oral English.
