Health Technician- Monitor Tech ICU

Summary

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.

Duties

The Health Technician (Monitor Tech) aids and assists ICU nursing staff in providing quality care for Veteran patients. They provide 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. Additional Duties Include But 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 Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description Title/PD#: Health Technician- Monitor Tech ICU/PD01643A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Individual Occupational Requirement: Positions in this series range widely in type and include support duties to medical or health personnel such as audiologists, speech pathologists, medical officers, and optometrists. Therefore, you are required to have technician experience, which is experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. Cardiac Monitor experience. ICU experience. Cardiac Rhythms class/training. EKG competency. Previous hospital acute care setting. In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirement, applicants must also meet the specialized experience. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: Performing both clerical and clinical duties in a medical/healthcare environment. Observing patients' cardiac rhythms. Notifying nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders. Operate and monitor equipment for both 12 lead and IS lead EKG readings. Measures and interprets patient's heart rhythm and documents on patient. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. Customer Service: Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. Security: Knowledge of the laws, regulations, and guidelines related to securing personnel, facilities, and information, including the requirements for handling, transporting, and protecting classified information and proper reporting of security incidents. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The variety of duties reflects a variety of potential extended periods of sitting, walking, standing, carrying items, typing, writing, as well as lifting heavy, sometimes immobile patients. The incumbent is expected to utilize good body mechanics and have stamina to withstand a stressful environment. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.