Sleep Disorders Tech Trainee (Full-time/Miles City)

Sleep Study Technician

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Billings Clinic is a community-owned, not-for-profit, physician-led health system based in Billings with more than 4,700 employees, including over 550 physicians and non-physician providers. Our integrated organization consists of a multi-specialty group practice and a 304-bed hospital. Learn more about Billings Clinic and how we are recognized nationally for our exceptional quality.

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Under direct supervision of a sleep technologist, sleep trainee develops competency in and performs basic sleep testing procedures and associated interventions.

Sleep Study Preparation and Set-Up:

Reviews patient's history and verifies medical order.

Verifies patient identification, collects documents, and obtains consent for sleep study.

Explains procedure and orients patient for either in-lab or home sleep testing.

Selects appropriate equipment and calibrates for testing to determine proper functioning and makes adjustments, if necessary.

Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted publishing standards.

Sleep Study Procedures:

Follows a variety of standard procedural protocols for sleep disorders testing to ensure collection of appropriate data.

Performs appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and makes required adjustments.

Follows "lights out" procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc).

Performs data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identifies, corrects, and documents artifact.

Documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.

Assists with appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc).

Follows "lights on" procedure to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (e.g. repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, and checks for completeness, etc).

Demonstrates proficiency in recognizing sleep versus wake and identify clinical events while monitoring sleep study patients.

Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to perform portable monitoring equipment preparation and data download.

Performs patient education and instruction appropriate for home sleep studies.

Demonstrates adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures for portable monitoring devices.

Demonstrates ability to identify artifact, inadequate signals, and study failures in portable monitoring.

General Duties:

Gains knowledge of sleep medicine, sleep disorders, and various sleep studies conducted by Billings Clinic Sleep Lab.

Assists with routine equipment care, maintenance, and inventory evaluation.

Considers the appropriateness of care based on the population specific needs of the patient.

Adheres to Sleep Lab policies related to quality assurance.

Supports and models behaviors consistent with Billings Clinic's mission, vision, values, code of business conduct and service expectations. Meets all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements. Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental and outside agency standards as it relates to the environment, employee, patient safety or job performance.

Education:

High School diploma or GED equivalent

Experience:

Six (6) months of direct patient care experience preferred

Billings Clinic is Montana's largest health system serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, the health system is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. Billings Clinic includes an integrated multi-specialty group practice, tertiary care hospital and trauma center, based in Billings, Montana. Learn more at

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