About This Role
This role involves performing specialized cardiac testing using computer-assisted devices and responding to emergency situations. The Electrocardiogram Technician I is responsible for maintaining equipment, recognizing unusual heart rhythms, and ensuring accurate patient records.
Responsibilities
- Perform specialized testing using computer-assisted devices, including holter/event monitor application, signal-averaged EKG, and treadmill stress tests
- Respond immediately to 'Code Blue' situations
- Maintain and review equipment, ensuring proper function and machine calibration
- Inform biomed when malfunctions occur
- Recognize and act upon unusual heart rhythms or patient responses by informing the primary healthcare team promptly
- Troubleshoot and correct recording instrument malfunctions or unusual patient problems that interfere with recordings
- Confirm patient information and identification prior to starting procedures
- Process patient and department records, ensuring documentation of performed tests in accordance with hospital standards
- Communicate clearly and courteously with patients, families, visitors, co-workers, physicians, and other departments
- Provide emotional support to patients
- Maintain patient confidentiality and serve as a patient advocate
- Present all urgent electrocardiogram results to appropriate personnel immediately after completion
- Perform routine and emergency electrocardiograms (EKGs) as ordered by physicians
Requirements
- Organizational skills
- Verbal interpersonal skills
- Customer relations skills
- Proficiency in grammar and spelling
- Ability to read and comprehend written instructions
- Ability to follow verbal instructions
- Keyboarding (manual) skills
- Proficient in computer (visual) use
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Basic clerical, computer data entry, and math skills
- Ability to provide care to the population served
- Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures in the health care industry
- Ability to assess data regarding patient status and health
- Ability to provide care following departmental policies and procedures
- Ability to demonstrate professional relationship building and effective communication skills
- Basic computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Ability to read, write, and speak conversational English
- Ability to recognize normal and abnormal ECG tracings
- Knowledge of the digital ECG process and use of computerized medical records
