Travel Polysomnographer - $1,900 per week

Start Date: 10/19/2026 | Duration: 13 weeks | Employment Type: Travel | Location: Urbana, IL

About the role

The Polysomnographic Technologist provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment support for patients with sleep disorders. The technologist performs diagnostic and therapeutic sleep studies, including in-center testing and home sleep apnea testing, monitors and scores physiological data, provides PAP education and interventions, and ensures accurate documentation and patient care throughout the study.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive sleep laboratory testing and provide patient-centered care.
• Prepare patients and equipment for diagnostic and therapeutic sleep studies.
• Perform PAP interface fitting, desensitization, and patient education.
• Review patient history, physician orders, and supporting documentation to ensure appropriate testing.
• Perform equipment and physiological calibrations and monitor data quality.
• Monitor physiological signals and behavioral observations throughout testing.
• Score sleep/wake stages and clinical events, including respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, and arousals.
• Distinguish sleep states and identify clinical events according to professional guidelines.
• Generate accurate reports by tabulating and analyzing sleep and clinical event data.
• Perform and follow protocols for Multiple Sleep Latency Testing (MSLT) and Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing (MWT).
• Perform ancillary testing including oximetry, actigraphy, and Home Sleep Apnea Testing (HSAT).
• Implement appropriate patient safety and sleep-related therapeutic interventions.
• Perform equipment cleaning, disinfection, and infection-control procedures.
• Maintain accurate patient documentation, testing records, and consent forms.
• Provide appropriate age-specific patient care across the populations served by the Sleep Lab.
• Participate in quality improvement and performance improvement activities.
• Maintain supplies and contribute to overall department organization.
• Provide professional communication and support to patients, families, providers, and Sleep Lab staff.
• Provide general oversight/support to other Sleep Center staff as appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• 1+ year of Sleep Lab experience
• Associate’s degree in Polysomnographic Technology OR completion of a Polysomnographic Technology Certificate Program
• RPSGT (Registered Polysomnographic Technologist) OR RST (Registered Sleep Technologist)
• BLS – American Heart Association

Required Skills

• Sleep Lab Experience
• Patient Care
• PAP Interface Fitting
• Patient Education
• Diagnostic Sleep Testing
• Sleep Stage Scoring
• Clinical Event Scoring
• Equipment Calibration
• Physiological Data Monitoring
• MSLT
• MWT
• Home Sleep Apnea Testing (HSAT)
• Oximetry
• Actigraphy
• Infection Control
• Clinical Report Generation
• Age-Specific Patient Care

Schedule

4 × 10-hour Night Shifts | 40 Hours/Week | Rotating Shifts