How can I prepare for a MONITOR TECH SKILLS TEST?

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Please help me!

I have finished Pre-nursing up with all A's and want a 'steady' job as lowly as it may seem. EKG Tech would be next, but Monior Tech sounds fine right now. I like to eat.

Any quick online source for READING AND INTERPRETING EKG / TELEMETRY MONITORS would be appreciated. It's for a hospital, so I'm not quite sure what all it includes.

THANK YOU!!

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Specializes in LDRP.

A friend of mine is a monitor tech at a local hospital and she told me they gave her a book and they had a 1-2 week class on all of that. :spmstmp:

do they expect you to just learn it all on yo own with no experience and take a test on it?!

Or is it more like a basic math test or something?

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They know I am accepted to one of their main supporting RN clinical schools, so they figured I could pick it up. I just don't know where they want to stop, 12 lead interpretations? I am almost there though, but I'm studying to get my CNA too (took 75 hour class last year).

I'm not sure if I want to call HR to ask since they won't know. I'd like to walk in, ace it, and start watching monitors on 12 hour shifts. I think it would be memorizing 24 to 26 ecg patterns and actions to take, but every site refers to some patterns differently except about 8-12 basic patterns. Now I have to nail down the other dozen to go, and memorize basic interpretations.

If there is an EKG class for 20 hours in a weekend, then monitor tech cannot be that mysterious. But the unknown always is. I could always take it, study it, and retake it the next day but... that may not work that easily in reality.

Someone please help my wretched soul!

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