Health Technician - San Antonio

Job summary

This position serves as a member of the health care team providing continuous monitoring of the cardiac telemetry central monitoring station and provides clinical and administrative support in a wide variety of patient care related activities.

Qualifications

• Possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position.

Responsibilities

• Observes, analyzes and records the cardiac rhythms of patients monitored via the cardiac telemetry centralized monitoring station;
• Records ECG strips and vital signs representative of changes in patients status and reports changes to the RN/LVN caring for the patient;
• Recognizes and documents arrhythmias;
• Reports to the RN/LVN in a timely manner;
• Leaves the central telemetry monitoring room only when properly relieved;
• Documents and maintains telemetry patient logs and related data;
• Detects and reports all equipment malfunctions and/or loss of ECG monitor signal to nursing personnel and, when appropriate, to biomedical engineers/graphic control;
• Documents nature of the problem in the telemetry equipment problem log; Includes information in report to oncoming personnel;
• Performs phlebotomy/blood draws;
• Institutes CPR;
• Assists in all hospital codes as assigned;
• Provides 1:1 observation of patients with special needs;
• Reinforces patient education provided by the nurse or physician on patient's role in various procedures, safety measures, equipment set-up and use, and on aspects of discharge teaching;
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.

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