Sleep Technologist

Pivotal Health, formerly known as Medbridge Healthcare, is a leading provider of sleep laboratory management services and sleep therapy. We partner with hospitals and physician practices to offer comprehensive, fully-integrated services for patient identification, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care management of patients with sleep disorders.

About the role

A Sleep Technologist/RPSGT works under general supervision to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders, including in-center and out-of-center sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, patient care, and direct patient education.

Schedule

Full-time position with hours generally from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, varying based on patient volume. Additional incentive pay per shift is available based on attended study and scoring productivity.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and integrate patient information to identify and meet patient-specific needs, including physical/mental limitations, current emotional/physiological status, and pertinent medical/social history.
• Determine final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.
• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing, ensuring proper functioning and making adjustments as necessary.
• Verify patient video recording(s) is operating properly per laboratory standard protocol.
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards and perform appropriate physiologic calibrations.
• Perform positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.
• Follow procedural protocols for tests such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, and oxygen titration.
• Establish and document baseline values (e.g., body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates) during "lights out" procedures.
• Perform polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure artifact-free signals and make adjustments as needed.
• Document observations every 20 minutes, including sleep stage, clinical events, position changes, pressure changes, SaO2 values, heart rate, respiratory rate, and significant events.
• Implement appropriate interventions for patient safety and therapeutic needs, such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure and oxygen administration.
• Follow "lights on" procedures to verify data integrity and complete the data collection process.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills to provide age-specific care for neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Oversee and perform difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions.
• Score sleep/wake stages and clinical events (e.g., respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals) according to professionally accepted guidelines and center-specific protocols.
• Generate accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and standards regarding safety and infection control.
• Perform routine and complex equipment care and maintenance, and evaluate sleep study-related equipment and inventory.
• Maintain current CPR or BCLS certification.
• Demonstrate effective written and spoken communication skills, appropriate social skills, and the ability to analyze complex situations and apply policy.
• Respond to study participants' procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.
• Ensure continuity of patient care during shifts, documenting exchanges of care in accordance with Pivotal Health's Continuum of Care policy.

Requirements

• Ability to perform the duties defined for a sleep technician and progress to a sleep technologist role.
• Compliance with the ABSM Standards of Conduct.
• Dress code: Well-fitting scrubs or business casual with a lab coat.