Polysomnography Technologist

About the Role

Responsible for monitoring and accessing Sleep Lab quality, policies and procedures, staff and equipment performance. Communicates and educates patients and families regarding sleep disorders and treatments. Consults with referring physicians regarding patient results. Per Diem position, 12-hour 7:00pm to 7:00am shift. Technologist will be responsible for providing comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders by conducting sleep studies and producing high quality sleep recordings. Attended overnight sleep studies are included as part of diagnostic testing for (open) inpatient psychiatric units.

Responsibilities

• Performs polysomnographic studies in a clinical setting, including oxygen and nasal continuous positive airway pressure titrations
• Scores studies and formulates reports for physician interpretation
• Documents all pertinent patient events according to department policy
• Communicates instructions, results, and relative information to patients, physicians, and family members
• Calibrates and performs routine and troubleshooting maintenance on equipment; notifies proper personnel for equipment problems; cleans all equipment ensuring infection control
• Consults with physicians regarding patient studies as needed
• Maintains standards for completeness of quality improvement and quality control measurements
• May establish and implement performance improvements including education and staff development
• Executes protocols involving a variety of routine and non-routine experiments at a professional level: processing, scoring, editing, analyzing, and quality checking data from a wide range of data collection systems and sources
• Maintains databases of polysomnographic (PSG) data, including data collected for heart rate and rhythm (ECG), sleep stages (EEG), muscle activity (EMG), oxygen saturation, carbon dioxide, respiration, and peripheral arterial tone (PAT), as well as data collected from actigraphy to estimate movement and sleep-wake times, and from other devices used to assess sleep and physical activity
• Obtains data from studies from clinical research sites across the U.S. participating in NIH-funded multicenter studies and other research studies
• Analyzes data quality trends and identifies studies that meet study-specific criteria for urgent medical referrals that require timely physician notification due to extreme physiological abnormalities
• Obtains 16 channel artifact-free polysomnographic data on two patients per shift
• Titrating CPAP
• Calibrating equipment
• Providing patient care

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent required; Associate's Degree in Health Sciences preferred
• Cannot accept experience in lieu of degree
• Polysomnography Tech experience with multiple patient populations: 1-2 years preferred
• Will work very independently and under general supervision to support the technical operations of the Sleep Reading Center
• 1+ year experience as a Sleep Technologist

Licenses & Credentials

• Basic Life Support [BLS Certification] preferred
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist [RPSGT] preferred
• Registered Sleep Technologist [RST] preferred
• RPSGT preferred but not required
• Scoring experience preferred

Skills

• Good communication skills
• Ability to effectively evaluate and problem solve
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to guide, teach, and motivate others
• Good business acumen skills

Pay

$31.98 - $50.25/Hourly