Health Technician - West Palm Beach, United States - US Veterans Health Administration

US Veterans Health Administration

Verified Company

West Palm Beach, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Duties:

The incumbent aids and assists ICU nursing staff in providing quality care for Veteran patients.

The Health Technician(Monitor Tech) provides continuous cardiac surveillance, interpretation, and reporting of monitor and telemetry tracing of patients within Patient Care Services.

In addition, the incumbents perform patient care support functions.

Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Maintains ongoing, high-level surveillance of patients' cardiac rhythms and notifies nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders.
Measures and interprets patient's heart rhythm and documents on patient record per departmental standards.
Initiates and discontinues monitoring equipment on admission, transfer, or discharge.
Performs clerical duties related to admission, discharge, and documentation of patient information from the Heartbeat Central station.
Serves as a resource for training and troubleshooting to both the Heartbeat Central station and clinical areas.
Maintains and stocks all designated equipment, including telemetry, and transport monitors.
Adheres to confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patients, clinicians, employees, and visitors.
Provides assistance of a technical, specialized, or support nature to health and medical personnel in the diagnosis or treatment of patient illnesses or medical conditions.
Supports medical and health care professionals in tests and procedures to diagnose and treat medical conditions.
Performs a range of diagnostic support duties such as taking, recording and reporting to supervisor deviations in vital signs, taking specimens, labeling specimens for the laboratory.
Performs and assists RN with personal care such as body and oral hygiene, dressing/undressing, and toileting/elimination always ensuring patient privacy.
Answers call lights and if unable to independently assist, communicates patients' needs to assigned RN or charge nurse.
As directed, assists in postmortem care including disconnecting patients from monitors and other equipment, bagging up and labeling patients' personal items, and assisting in transferring patients to the morgue.
Collect and sends routine urine, stool, blood, and sputum specimens per established protocol.

Work Schedule:
Tours will be 6 shifts of 6:00pm

6:30am and 1 shift of 11:00pm

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#:
Health Technician/PD02194A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:
Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/195
You may be required to serve a probationary period
Subject to background/security investigation
Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/17/202
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

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Individual Occupational Requirements
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Minimal Requirement GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Specialized experience includes:
Performing both clerical and clinical duties in a medical/healthcare environment
Observing patients' cardiac rhythms
Notifying nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders
Operate and monitor equipment for both 12 lead and IS lead EKG readings
Measures and interprets patient's heart rhythm and documents on patient

NOTE:
Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required above GS-5 _only_ in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position

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Physical Requirements:

The position demands a moderate degree of exertion and a high degree of dexterity, long periods of standing and long distance walking from clinic to clinic.

The work requires some physical exertion, prolong periods of standing and working at a variety of machines, bending, stooping, crouching, reaching and stretching to work on devices and appliances and to fit them to the veteran.

There may be recurring lifting and moving of moderately heavy supplies and equipment such as wheel chairs and durable medical equipment
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Education:

Additional information:

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation)

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