Lead Remote Monitoring Tech - Night Shift

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Organization:

7N Cohort 30

Job Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Independently oversees the daily operations and workflow in the remote monitoring office to ensure consistent superior customer service and turnaround time. Oversees consistent compliance with department policies, procedures, and operational guidelines and has a key role in training, competency assessment, safety, and compliance. Serves as a support resource for vSitters in the video monitoring of patients, supports monitor techs in the acquisition and interpretation of cardiac tracings and pulse oximetry monitoring, aids with lunch and break coverage for vSitter and Monitor Tech staff, makes staff assignments for the oncoming shift, and in the absence of an on-site supervisor, will assume a leadership role.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Receives, tracks, and coordinates vSitter and cardiac monitoring initiation and discontinuation orders.
• Assures that patients who require oversight of vSitter monitoring or cardiac monitoring are accurately admitted to the monitoring software system.
• Communicates with patient safety runner to facilitate the deployment, retrieval, and troubleshooting of cameras and telemetry equipment.
• Acquires, measures, and provides initial interpretation of electrocardiogram waveforms per protocol and upon request from providers and/or nurses. Imports waveforms into the patient's electronic medical record.
• Identifies and communicates safety concerns to the unit staff in the appropriate time frame per protocol.
• Identifies and communicates abnormal and/or significant changes in cardiac rhythms and pulse oximetry readings to the unit staff in the appropriate time frame per protocol.
• Escalates alarms and safety concerns to staff and/or unit leadership in an appropriate timeframe as defined by monitoring policies and SOP.
• Serves as a resource to unit staff for lead placement, equipment management and troubleshooting of telemetry and cardiac monitoring equipment and as a resource to monitoring staff for equipment management and troubleshooting of V-Sitting monitoring equipment.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Medical Devices (Fundamental Awareness): Has training, direct exposure, limited experience, or past experience installing and repairing simple and well-defined problems with the equipment. Able to read simple schematics and other instructions for installing and repairing equipment.
• Medical Terminology & Documentation - (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate medical terminology and documentation in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Cardiac Monitoring (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to effectively monitor cardiac rhythms in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Data Interpretation (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate data interpretation in practical applications of moderate difficulty.

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Core Accountabilities:

* Organizational Impact: Independently performs non-routine tasks that significantly impact team and other related teams.* Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Gathers and analyzes data to solve problems that arise with little or no precendent.* Breadth of Knowledge: App