Polysomnography Tech (casual)

About the role

Nemours is seeking a casual Polysomnography Tech to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Malvern, PA.

Responsibilities

• Gather and Analyze Patient Information
• Complete and verify documentation
• Explain pre-testing, testing, and post-testing procedures to the patient
• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments if necessary
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards
• Perform appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments if necessary
• Perform positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting
• Follow procedural protocols [such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, oxygen titration etc.] to ensure collection of appropriate data
• Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.)
• Perform Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments, if necessary
• Document routine observations including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results
• Implement appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.)
• Follow “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, etc.)
• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide age specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients
• Oversee and perform difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions
• Polysomnographic Record Scoring
• Score sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines
• Score clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals etc.) according to center specific protocols
• Generate accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data

Service Management and Professional Issues

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards regarding safety and infection control issues
• Perform routine and complex equipment care and maintenance
• Evaluate sleep study related equipment and inventory
• Maintain current CPR or BCLS certification
• Demonstrate effective written and spoken communication skills
• Demonstrate appropriate social skills
• Respond to study participant’s procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze complex situations and apply policy
• Comply with the BRPT Standards of Conduct Requirements

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a polysomnography program (CPSGT), Registered Polysomnographic Technologist™ (RPSGT) and associated state license is required (or successful completion of a polysomnography program (CPSGT), associated state license and must obtain RPSGT within 6 months of hire)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certified through the American Heart Association is required
• Minimum three months experience as a Polysomnography Tech is required

Pay

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Schedule

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