Registered Polysomnographic Technician - PRN/Casual - Rotating

Job Summary

Location: 515 N 162nd Ave #103 Omaha, NE 68118
Schedule: Casual rotating day and night shift hours
Conduct all aspects of sleep diagnostic sing.

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.
• Completes and verifies documentation.
• Explains pre-sing, sing, and post sing procedures to the patient.
• Prepares and calibrates equipment for sing.
• Determine 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, and 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.
• Polysomnographic record scoring.
• Scores sleep/wake stages according to guidelines.
• Scores clinical events according to protocols.
• Generates accurate reports for physician review.
• Facilitates communication to pulmonologists for interpretation.
• Maintains supply inventory.
• Maintains supply orders as needed.

Job 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).
  • Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.

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.

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, Standing; 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), Mechanical moving parts/vibrations.
• Occasionally (34%-66%): Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF), Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment).
• Equipment/Machinery/Tools: 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).

About Nebraska Methodist Health System

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission. Nebraska Methodist Health System is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by Federal, state or local law.