Monitor Tech

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 229-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II NICU, cancer care, women’s health, and orthopedics. Additionally, Mercy Hospital Downtown & Mercy Hospital Southwest have been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. They are both Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Centers. Mercy Hospital Downtown offers the only inpatient Oncology Unit in Bakersfield while Mercy Hospital Southwest has the only Obstetric Emergency Department in Bakersfield.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As a Monitor Tech, you will be responsible for continuous observation and analysis of patients' cardiac rhythms to detect and report changes.

Every day you will meticulously monitor EKG strips, identify arrhythmias, measure intervals, and promptly communicate critical findings to nursing staff and healthcare providers, ensuring accurate documentation.

To be successful, you will demonstrate sharp observational skills, a thorough understanding of cardiac rhythms, and the ability to act quickly and precisely under pressure, crucial for patient safety and timely intervention.

• Assign tele-box to patients who have telemetry ordered for them.
• Add patient demographics into the central monitor.
• Run one strip per patient every shift and/or as needed for rhythm changes or dysrhythmias (Some patient care situations may require more frequently run strips) and place strip(s) in the patient's chart.
• Place the strips on the monitor tracing record with the name, date, time and interpretation.
• Review dysrhythmias and clear appropriately at least every four hours as needed.
• Monitor patient in appropriate lead that reflects goals of monitoring such as potential areas of ischemia, infarction, ectopy.

Required

• High School Graduate General Studies or 2 years equivalent work experience. , upon hire or
• High School GED General Studies or 2 years equivalent work experience. , upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR (AHA), upon hire
• Dysrhythmia Certificate

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.