RPSGT - Nuvance - Fishkill, NY

Responsibilities

• Gather and Analyze Patient Information
• Collect, analyze, and integrate patient information to identify and meet patient-specific needs.
• Determine final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.
• 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.
• 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, 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 observations every 20 minutes on recording and in technical comments to include: sleep stage, clinical events, position changes, pressure changes, SaO2 values, heart rate, and respiratory rate, changes in procedure, and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.

Requirements

• High school diploma required.
• Completion of an accredited Polysomnography program required.
• RPSGT and/or CRT/RT license(s) also preferred.
• Certification by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist ("RPSGT") required.
• Current BCLS certification required.
• Proof of immunizations required.

Pay

Pay range 40 and up DOE

Physical Demands

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit.
• The employee is required to use his/her hands to operate office equipment.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.