Polysomnography Tech RPSGT - Casual/PRN - Nights

Job Summary

Location: Methodist Jennie Edmundson
Address: 933 E. Pierce St. - Council Bluffs, IA
Work Schedule: Casual/PRN position. Nights.

Responsibilities

• Positive relations when interacting with patients, visitors, families, physicians, customers, and coworkers.
• Greet, smiles and makes eye contact. Introduces self by name. Volunteers to help co-workers and other employees.
• Addresses patients and others by surname. Responds quickly to patients and/or other peoples' needs.
• Gather and Analyze Patient Information. Collects, analyzes and integrates patient information in order to identify and meet patient specific needs (Physical/mental limitations, current emotional/physiological status regarding the sing procedures, pertinent medical/social history), and to determine final sing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.
• Completes and verifies documentation. Explains pre-sing, sing, and post sing procedures to the patient.
• Prepares and calibrates equipment for sing. Determines proper functioning and make adjustments, if necessary, to equipment. Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
• Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments if necessary. Performs positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting. Polysomnographic procedures. Follows procedural protocols such as MSLT, MWT, Parasomnia studies, positive Airway pressure, oxygen titration.
• Performs data acquisition while monitoring. Documents Routine observations including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure and significant events in order to facilitate scoring.
• Poly somnographic record scoring. Scores sleep/wake stages according to guidelines. Scores clinical events according to protocols. Generates accurate reports for physician review.
• Poly somnographic physician review. Facilitates communication to pulmonologists for interpretation.
• Maintains supply inventory. Maintains supply orders as needed.

Requirements

• Education: High School Diploma or General Educational Development (G.E.D) required.
• Experience: 3 to 6 months experience in sleep sing is preferred.
• Licenses/Certifications:
  • Registered Polysomnographic Tech (RPSGT) certification through the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) required at the time of hire or within 12 months of hire if currently a Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT) or Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) or Registered EEG Technician (R.EEGT).
  • Iowa Polysomnographic Technologist (PSGT) license required at the time of hire or within 12 months of hire if currently an Iowa licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP.IA) or Registered EEG Technician (R.EEGT).
• Skills/Knowledge/Abilities: Good understanding of all aspects of sleep diagnostic sing. Ability to perform Multiple Sleep Latency Testing (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing (MWT), and scoring polysomnograms.

Schedule

This is a casual/PRN position. Casual/PRN employees work on an 'as needed' basis to meet the needs of the business. Work days/hours will often vary from week to week. Shifts will be nights.

Physical Requirements

• Weight Demands: Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.
• Physical Activity: Occasionally Performed (1%-33%): Climbing, Crawling, Kneeling, Sitting. Frequently Performed (34%-66%): Balancing, Carrying, Crouching, Keyboarding/typing, Lifting, Pulling/Pushing, Repetitive Motions. Constantly Performed (67%-100%): Grasping, Hearing, Reaching, Seeing/Visual, Speaking/talking.

Job Hazards

• Not Related: Explosives (pressurized gas), Electrical Shock/Static, Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc), Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means).
• Rare (1-33%): Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex), Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact), Blood or Body Fluid (BBF), Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment).
• Equipment/Machinery/Tools: Not specified.