AHMC Healthcare·Monterey Park, California
Provides clerical assistance to the nursing unit, including transcribing orders and maintaining patient charts. Continuously monitors and interprets patient cardiac rhythms while ensuring telemetry equipment functions correctly.
Overview Monterey Park Hospital, located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, is searching for a Unit Secretary/Monitor Tech for our Telemetry Department. The position is full-time, 10 hours with variable shifts. This position reports to the Director of Critical Care Services.
The Unit Secretary/Monitor Tech provides clerical assistance to the Nursing Unit. This position transcribes doctors’ orders, maintains patient charts, receives documents and follows-through with phone orders, provides general clerical support (filing, faxing, copying, sorting mail, ordering supplies, placing maintenance orders), and maintains unit statistics. This position will replace the Monitor Tech during breaks, meal periods, sick calls and vacation requests. The Monitor Tech position continuously monitors patient’s cardiac rhythms by reading, recognizing, and interpreting normal and abnormal rhythms, properly reports and documents patient’s rhythms, maintains and monitors proper functioning of the telemetry equipment including alarms. Ensures level of telemetry monitoring supplies is adequate at all times, maintains unit statistics for reports.
High School Diploma or equivalent preferred. One year of experience as a Monitor Tech in an acute care hospital is preferred. Monitor Technician Certification required. Current BLS from the American Heart Association is required. Must pass EKG competency.
Proficiency in both written and oral English.
Requires a Monitor Technician Certification and current BLS from the American Heart Association. A high school diploma and one year of acute care hospital experience are preferred.
Market context
California nursing roles often draw steady demand, especially for experienced RNs in procedural and critical care settings. Competition is strongest for candidates who already hold a California RN license, current BLS and ACLS, and recent ICU, ER, or PACU experience. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to save research time, then confirm your certifications and highlight relevant bedside and procedural experience in your application.
