Registered Polysomnographic Technologist

Job Description

Job Description

Working nights is tough!! We offer a Flexible Work Policy which allows employees to modify their arrival and departure time.

Shift : (3) 13 hour shifts per week (Overnight) - 2:1 Ratio

Shift 1: Sunday-Tuesday

Shift 2: Wednesday - Friday

Responsibilities:

• Reviews history/physical information, medications, test requests and study protocol.
• Completes and verifies all documentation, i.e. pre and post sleep questionnaires, technician notes.
• Explains the procedure/orients the patient to the sleep center.
• Prepares and calibrates equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and makes adjustments if necessary.
• Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
• Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and makes adjustments if necessary.
• Performs routine positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.
• Follows procedural protocols (e.g., HSAT, MSLT, parasomnia studies, PAP and oxygen titration, etc.) to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Performs polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and makes adjustments, if necessary.
• 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.
• Implements appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.
• Assists with scoring sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
• Assists with scoring clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) with center specific protocols.
• Assists with generation of accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.
• Complies with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards regarding safety and infection control issues.
• Performs routine equipment care and maintenance and inventory evaluation.
• Demonstrates effective written and spoken communication skills.
• Responds to study participant's procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.
• Keeps equipment orderly, clean and in good repair.
• Other duties as assigned.
  

Certifications:   Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) (RST)  Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.