Patient Care Services is recruiting a Health Technician (Monitor Tech) in the Intensive Care Unit at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center. The Health Technician provides support in a wide variety of basic clinical and intermediate level administrative functions. Ensures compliance with VA regulations, Joint Commission standards, other regulatory agencies. Improves the quality and timeliness of basic services that are delivered to patients by providing a wide variety of ancillary activities.
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: Maintain ongoing, high-level surveillance of patients' cardiac rhythms and notifies nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders. Measure and interprets patient's heart rhythm and documents on patient record per departmental standards. Initiate and discontinues monitoring equipment on admission, transfer, or discharge. Perform clerical duties related to admission, discharge, and documentation of patient information from Heartbeat Central station. Serve as a resource for training and troubleshooting to both Heartbeat Central station and clinical areas. Maintain and stocks all designated equipment, including telemetry, and transport monitors. Adhere to confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patients, clinicians, employees, and visitors. Provide assistance of a technical, specialized, or support nature to health and medical personnel in the diagnosis or treatment of patient illnesses or medical conditions. Support medical and health care professionals in tests and procedures to diagnose and treat medical conditions. Perform 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. Perform and assists RN with personal care such as body and oral hygiene, dressing/undressing, and toileting/elimination always ensuring patient privacy. Answer call lights and if unable to independently assist, communicates patients' needs to assigned RN or Charge Nurse Performs other duties as assigned. As directed, assist 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. Perform other duties as assigned including floating to other units. Work Schedule: Various, days/nights, weekends, holidays Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Technician (Intensive Care Unit)/PD01643A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
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.
orienfro.chestnut@va.gov 561-422-1381
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