RPSGT - Northwestern Kishwaukee Hospital - Dekalb, IL

Location: Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital and travel to surrounding labs.

About the role

Gather and analyze patient information to identify and meet patient-specific needs, including physical/mental limitations, current emotional/physiological status regarding the testing procedure, and pertinent medical/social history. Determine final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.

Responsibilities

• Complete and verify documentation.
• Explain pre-testing, testing, and post-testing procedures to the patient.
• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to ensure proper functioning and make adjustments if necessary.
• Verify patient video recording(s) is operating properly per laboratory standard protocol.
• 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, and oxygen titration to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (e.g., body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates).
• Perform Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments as needed.
• Document observations every 20 minutes on recording and in technical comments, including sleep stage, clinical events, position changes, pressure changes, SaO₂ values, heart rate, respiratory rate, changes in procedure, and significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.