http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/introduce-telemetry-tech-patient-ratios.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 5 Apr 2026 09:29 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24475549?utm_medium=rss I would like to know and have patient ratio per each monitor tech that is legit.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:35:32 UTC 24475549 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24216180?utm_medium=rss Totally agree need safer ratios for 40 and below per tech.

]]> Sun, 6 Feb 2022 07:34:32 UTC 24216180 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24215738?utm_medium=rss Washington Hospital In Fremont, Ca has a 60:1 ratio.

]]> Sat, 5 Feb 2022 05:37:50 UTC 24215738 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24161544?utm_medium=rss Tele techs are subject to abuse by the employers in the absence of tech to pt ratio.

]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:02:35 UTC 24161544 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23739612?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:28:36 UTC 23739612 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23236830?utm_medium=rss I have been a TeleTech for over 30years and never have I watched over 40 Pt.

]]> Thu, 12 Sep 2019 03:05:06 UTC 23236830 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22655669?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:59:31 UTC 22655669 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22524991?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:31:50 UTC 22524991 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22286098?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Jul 2018 03:05:26 UTC 22286098 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22259716?utm_medium=rss Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:49:49 UTC 22259716 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20989037?utm_medium=rss I totally agree with the ratio and proposal!

]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:40:52 UTC 20989037 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20956552?utm_medium=rss Fri, 23 Dec 2016 06:52:40 UTC 20956552 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20945552?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:07:01 UTC 20945552 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20906617?utm_medium=rss I am also a telemetry tech in the state of MT. City Missoula at St Patrick Hospilal(Providence Health and Service) , in a centrally located tele unit, whoch is the cardiac unit, buy monitor pts on 3-4 other units within two other floors. All we ever have is one tech for upwards of 50 pt's with the capability to monitor 64 pt's. i too feel this is very dangerous for pt's, any over 40 pt's is merely impossible to catch everything, not to mention trying to get ahold of appropriate person to address issues. Very dangerous and careless!

]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:05:53 UTC 20906617 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20824770?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:00:07 UTC 20824770 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20821642?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Oct 2016 02:08:23 UTC 20821642 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20813459?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:25:41 UTC 20813459 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20813452?utm_medium=rss The hospital I work at in Fontana has a centralized station; one tech for 60 (telemetry), and one tech for 48 (step down unit). There is talk to add more! We need ratios!

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:22:19 UTC 20813452 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20253867?utm_medium=rss Mercy Philadelphia hospital is trying to raise the number of patients we monitor over 40. This is the central monitoring station where every floor is monitered by one tech

]]> Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:46:10 UTC 20253867 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20087330?utm_medium=rss We need this in Vegas aswell!

]]> Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:16:02 UTC 20087330 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19765921?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Feb 2016 05:06:57 UTC 19765921 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19604180?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:02:57 UTC 19604180 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19532099?utm_medium=rss this petition is great, Mt. also needs a tele tech to pt. ratio. I am a tele tech at a hospital in Missoula MT. a centralized tele station, located on the cardiac floor. the tele techs monitor on an average of 50+ pts. on cardiac floor, and two other floors as well. every shift, its ridiculous, we can monitor up to 64, but some broken boxes or missing ones prevent that, thankfully. ive been a tele tech for 8 years here, and keeps getting worse for the ratios. I feel as it is very hard to catch everything that goes on, sometimes there are so many alarms, that if a pt. isnt alarming, you dont even look at them. keep me informed on this please, I'd like to get something like this going on here.

]]> Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:10:49 UTC 19532099 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18973607?utm_medium=rss I work at a hospital that is threatening to have one monitor tech responsible for all hard wire and tele box patients which is approximately 100 - 150+ patients. They have already dropped down to two monitor techs. We are feeling the stress and are worried about the quality and safety of patient care. We are hoping that we can use your patient to telemetry technician ratio petition as example in our on going negotiations. Thank You.

]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2015 05:25:35 UTC 18973607 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18630898?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Mar 2015 01:05:43 UTC 18630898 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18619785?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:40:58 UTC 18619785 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18619777?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:39:19 UTC 18619777 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18314528?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:50:31 UTC 18314528 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18313173?utm_medium=rss All of the monitor techs at my facility in Orange County wish to encourage California to promote and create laws for Telemetry Tech Ratios.

]]> Wed, 7 Jan 2015 05:35:37 UTC 18313173 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18102131?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:30:47 UTC 18102131 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17692471?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Aug 2014 03:30:58 UTC 17692471 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17690686?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Aug 2014 07:01:49 UTC 17690686 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17133499?utm_medium=rss safety first

]]> Wed, 2 Apr 2014 03:03:30 UTC 17133499 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16750220?utm_medium=rss The Joint Commission has a new National Patient Safety Goal on Alarms, and they would probably agree with you that no more than 40 patients per monitor watcher is safe.

]]> Fri, 7 Feb 2014 01:50:55 UTC 16750220 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16476749?utm_medium=rss It is vital to patient safety that telemetry technicians be given a manageable patient ratio by which to monitor critical disrhythmias!

]]> Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:06:00 UTC 16476749 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16321245?utm_medium=rss Patient safety must be the number one priority. They are the reason why we do what we do. Patient to tech ratio directly effects patient care, simple as that.

]]> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:23:44 UTC 16321245 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16304796?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:18:55 UTC 16304796 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15935490?utm_medium=rss I agree, I'm having a the same situation here in Florida working for HCA.

]]> Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:36:05 UTC 15935490 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15720053?utm_medium=rss I also work in a centralized telemetry unit. Each technician monitor 50-60 patients. Communication is very important, between the nurse and central telemetry tech. I know that the nurses get busy. However, it's important to call if the patient is not connected.

]]> Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:15:25 UTC 15720053 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15449660?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jun 2013 01:22:58 UTC 15449660 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15449337?utm_medium=rss HCA is going to cental monitoring units and saying each tech should watch 45 patients this number is far too high for patient aftey as we watch post open heart patients and patient on cardic and bp drips we have already had one found down in the bathroom and one coded in dialysis and we have only been live 2 months

]]> Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:26:18 UTC 15449337 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15253109?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 May 2013 10:57:24 UTC 15253109 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15174080?utm_medium=rss Sat, 4 May 2013 10:53:53 UTC 15174080 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14975790?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:41:46 UTC 14975790 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14820274?utm_medium=rss We went from 40 patients to 56 per Tele Tech. Thats about a 50% increase in patient care. We are currently monitoring an Intensive Care Unit, Telemetry Unit, and Progressive Care Unit. This decreases the quality of care provided to the patients that need to be monitored. We are no longer able to "monitor" the patients because there is a very large amount of patients. All patients need to be documented on (arrhythmia strips need to be printed, cut, mounted), admitted, discharged, transferred, off for daily activities or procedures, and even have fictitious name changes. Many alarms are missed which that causes a delay in patient care assessment/treatment. Calls are being placed well after the heart ectopy occurs. Changes are not being noted e.g. a patient changes from Afib to Sinus and they continue to be on unnecessary medications for the previous diagnosis. This is highly dangerous and costly for the patient. On the long run hiking up insurance cost for all. Our patients are now so compacted on our monitor screens where we can no longer scan the screen. We must open their screen individually which causes the other patients windows to minimize even more. Dangerous and preventable.

]]> Mon, 4 Mar 2013 01:25:31 UTC 14820274 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14772573?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:34:54 UTC 14772573 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14292225?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:04:02 UTC 14292225 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14212061?utm_medium=rss We have been monitoring up to 64 pts. for 15 yrs. It is very unsafe. We have to print strips, do measurements, and document/mount each strip. This takes several hours and takes time away from the actual monitoring. Then you go back and find all the alarms you have missed again taking time away form monitoring the patients.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:16:10 UTC 14212061 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14149865?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:50:43 UTC 14149865 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14148753?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:12:39 UTC 14148753 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14084016?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:31:33 UTC 14084016 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14075222?utm_medium=rss We already monitor between 40 and 50 on any given night and sometimes as many as 60 patients on a bust night. This is not only extremely stressful, but a HUGE patient safety issue. Just from sifting through all the false alarms going off at any given time it's very easy to miss something.

]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:35:13 UTC 14075222 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14073277?utm_medium=rss We have about 44 and my coworker has about 40 and our unit management has made the decision to add more patients totalling, i think they said 56. Unacceptable but because their is no max patient load they have choose to go ahead instead of adding another Tele Tech.

]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:06:35 UTC 14073277 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13973810?utm_medium=rss I STRONGLY AGREE

]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:47:23 UTC 13973810 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13747353?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:45:06 UTC 13747353 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12434763?utm_medium=rss I too am a Monitor Technician (a.k.a. Telemetry Technician) and my department was introduced to a "centralized monitoring station" which adds patients from another floor to our patient load, yielding to a maximum of 68 monitored patients per one Monitor Tech, as opposed to the previous maximum of 33 patients. This system is ultimately unsafe. There is no evidence-based practice that sets a patient ratio. It shouldn't have to take a sentinnel event to change a practice.

]]> Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:27:13 UTC 12434763 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12270770?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:16:27 UTC 12270770 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12270654?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:37:10 UTC 12270654 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12257794?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:39:40 UTC 12257794 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12257268?utm_medium=rss Your absolutely right phillip. I hate to say it but if we do end up with watching over 60 patients, something bad will happen. They are obviously not thinking about patient safety its about money. Very sad

]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:53:53 UTC 12257268 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12256732?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:09:04 UTC 12256732 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255750?utm_medium=rss Your absolutely right phillip. I hate to say it but if we do end up with watching over 60 patients, something bad will happen. They are obviously not thinking about patient safety its about money. Very sad

]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:36:22 UTC 12255750 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255613?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:02:44 UTC 12255613 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255563?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:52:08 UTC 12255563 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12252798?utm_medium=rss I'm not a tele tech but I am advocate for patients. Watching to many patients rhythms at one time can be dangerous but that's just my opinion.

]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:43:48 UTC 12252798 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12252645?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:51:56 UTC 12252645 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12252508?utm_medium=rss I completely agree that you need ratios! I will stand behind you in this fight!

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:57:01 UTC 12252508 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12252453?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:34:50 UTC 12252453