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Department

Job Summary

Telemetry Technician: Operates telemetry and hospital computer-based equipment and comprehends the capabilities of the cardiac monitoring system. Reports any unusual activity to nurse or charge nurse and documents communications according to the clinical care guideline. Manages equipment appropriately, providing prompt communication to the nurse leadership team.
CNA: When working in CNA role, under close supervision, assists professional nursing and care providers in providing care to all patients with respect for their uniqueness. Collaborates with the RN and healthcare team. Assists with basic patient care and activities of daily living. Maintains unit specific documentation as required. Orders, maintains and utilizes supplies for the assigned unit. Demonstrates the equivalent skills and competencies of the CNA.


Essential Functions:

• Telemetry Technician
  General Operations:
  
• Provides observation of cardiac monitors to maintain consistent knowledge of any changes in monitor patterns and potential lethal or dangerous dysrhythmias. Does not leave monitors unattended.
  
• Promptly notifies unit charge nurse or delegee of cardiac rhythm and/or pulse oximetry changes.
  
• Assists staff with reviewing monitor data, as needed.
  
• Documents the interpretation and imports rhythm strips in patient's electronic medical record per unit policy, and more frequently if ordered or directed by nurse leadership.
  
• Admit patients to the monitoring system, sets alarms per nursing staff directions, as per provider order,
  
• Acts as a liaison among all units that provide telemetry and continuous pulse oximetry monitoring.
  
• Provides data and interpretation support in critical situations.
  
• Mentors and orients others as directed by unit leadership.
  
• Maintains a clean work environment.
  (10%)
• Data Collection and Documentation:
  
• Observes, gathers, interprets, and records telemetry recordings, reporting cardiac rhythm changes and information on monitored patients.
  
• Documents strip interpretations and imports strips into patient's electronic medical record. Verifies patient identity with admissions, discharges and strip imports
  
• Gives report to oncoming shift, per established standard work.
  
• Confirms strips are importing in the electronic medical record.
  (10%)
• CNA
  General Operations:
  
• Obtains vital signs and differentiates normal from abnormal findings. Reports abnormal values or conditions to the RN/LPN. (EX. Abnormal VS, bleeding, safety concerns, family issues.)
  
• Assists the RN/LPN in carrying out the established plan of care for assigned patients.
  
• Functions appropriately in critical situations.
  
• Participates as a member of the patient care team by asking for additional tasks, or helping others when not busy.
  
• Accurately gathers information and performs data entry.
  (10%)
• Documentation:
  
• Documents Plan of Care making sure information is properly transcribed and complete.
  
• Adheres to the hospital's principles and practices of Informing Clinical Practice, Interconnecting Stakeholders, Improving Population Health, and Personalizing Care.
  (10%)
• Data Collection:
  
• Collects clinical data to contribute to the Plan of Care in conjunction with the RN/LPN.
  
• Performs chart audits to promote quality improvement.
  
• Reports response of patient/family or changing condition to the RN/LPN and helps to appropriately update the plan of care.
  
• Participates in practice changes related to nursing research.
  (10%)
• Implementation/Outcomes:
  
• In coordination with the RN/LPN, implements care based on prioritized patient needs.
  
• Participates in a unique, outcome focused plan of care based on current nursing practice with measurable outcomes and goals for the patient/family.
  (10%)
• Collaboration:
  
• Participates with the Coordination of care with multidisciplinary team.
  
• Participates in the discharge planning process.
  
• Assists the RN/LPN to identify realistic expected outcomes to facilitate the patient's optimum level of health as well as the anticipated continuation of care.
  
• Works with the RN/LPN to provide a unique, outcome focused plan of care with measurable outcomes and goals for a patient/family.
  
• Interacts with colleagues and the public in a manner consistent with the standards set forth in Denver Health's Code of Conduct, and behavior standards outlined in Trust, Respect and Excellence.
  
• Participates in the peer and coworker review process.
  (10%)
• Safety/Quality:
  
• Practices sound safety and infection control practices according to hospital policies and procedures; Identifies safety and infection control issues.
  
• Reports quality, effectiveness and efficiency of nursing care provided.
  
• Performs qualify control on appropriate systems and equipment.
  
• Promotes quality care based on going monitoring of patient/family response or changing condition.
  
• Provides a safe environment for all patients. Assuring proper patient positioning and patient care throughout the patients stay.
  
• Ensures practice and adheres to professional standards, statutes, regulations, hospital and departmental policies, and standards of care.
  
• Assumes accountability for achieving goals set jointly with the manager, educator, and charge RN for the next evaluation period.
  (10%)
• Ethics:
  
• Delivers care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory manner that preserves patients' rights.
  
• Acts as a patient advocate.
  
• Assures patient privacy before, during and after procedures.
  
• Promotes positive interpersonal (customer) relationships with fellow employees, physicians, patients and visitors. Treats these individuals with courtesy, dignity, empathy and respect; consistently displays courteous and respectful verbal and non-verbal communications.
  
• Adheres to, complies with and demonstrates support for the mission and values of Denver Health. Supports and adheres to Denver Health's Code of Conduct, and behavior standards outlined in Trust, Respect and Excellence.
  
• Has regular and predictable attendance.
  (10%)
• Patient Care Positions:
  
• Ensures all duties, responsibilities and competencies are conducted in a manner that is effective and appropriate to patients/clients to whom care/service is being provided.
  
• Demonstrates knowledge and applicability of the principles of growth and development over the life span, as well as demonstrating the ability to assess data reflecting the patient's status and interpreting appropriate cultural information of the patient(s) to whom care/ services is being delivered/provided.
  
• Employee has completed and met their clinical competency standards.
  (10%)

Education:

• Post High School Diploma or Certificate Program Required

Work Experience:

• Typically, one year experience in a health care/telemetry setting providing telemetry service required

Licenses:

• CNA-Certified Nurse Aide - ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center required
• BLS-Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) - AHA - American Heart Association required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of and the ability to use medical equipment and instruments to administer patient care. Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish a safe work environment.
• Effective skills in communication, problem solving, interpersonal relationships and prioritization. Skill in maintaining records and recording test results. Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, employees, physicians and the public.
• Ability to maintain quality control standards. Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations. Ability to interpret, adapt and apply guidelines and procedures. Ability to communicate clearly. Ability to communicate effectively with peers and understand directions. Ability to consistently function in an environment that includes varying, unpredictable, or crisis circumstances, while exercising appropriate interpersonal and critical thinking skills. Ability to monitor all patients placed on telemetry monitoring.
• Basic MS Office suite.

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Benefits

• Competitive pay

• Outstanding benefits

• Education opportunities

• Shared leadership and advancement opportunity

• State-of-the-art facilities

• Immediate retirement plan matching

• Professional clinical advancement program

• Participation in evidence-based projects

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.

We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

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Take your career to the next level at Denver Health, where we offer a robust benefits package and endless opportunities for growth. Denver Health is a nationally-ranked, locally-trusted, premier healthcare institution located in the heart of Denver, Colorado.Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or approximately 150,000 individuals, receive their health care here. We are known as an integrated health care system that encompasses multidisciplinary academic specialties, a community health system, a level I adult trauma center, pediatric emergency and urgent care center home to Denver Public Health and many of the nation's leaders in medicine.Denver Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Denver Health we pride ourselves on our commitment to diversity. Equal opportunity is a fundamental principle of Denver Health. As an equal opportunity employer, Denver Health is committed to recruit, hire, promote and administer all human resource actions in a non-discriminatory manner. Denver Health is committed to providing equal opportunities in all business practices and to all persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, genetic information, religion, sex, pregnancy, disab...ility, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or veteran status (collectively “protected status”). Denver Health strives to maintain a work environment that is free from unlawful harassment and discrimination and will not tolerate any such conduct by employees or directed at employees within the scope of their employment. Read the full Human Resources Employee Principles and Practices policy.

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