Medical Instrument Technician - Polysomnography

Job Title

Polysomnography Technologist

Duties

Using state of the art equipment incumbent obtains polysomnograms on patients with life threatening sleep disorders.

Obtains multiple sleep latency tests on patients with possible narcolepsy or other disorders of excess sleepiness.

All testing performed requires on-line analysis by the technologist to obtain the necessary data for correct diagnosis and therapy for the patient.

Make decisions about therapy in the case of patients with sleep apnea who are undergoing split night studies.

Requires both obtaining studies that are representative and making decisions during the study if the patient is appropriate that night to undergo therapy, and determining that the therapy is optimal.

Assists in the education of students (medical students, polysomnography students) and residents and fellows.

Based on experience and knowledge the incumbent provides oxygen therapy, and or nasal CPAP and or nasal BiPAP and or nasal auto-pap therapy, determining the proper levels to be administered.

Able to determine the appropriate settings of BiPAP ST as well as Servopap.

Recognize various cardiac arrythmias and independently decides when to call for professional intervention.

Recognize and describe seizures and other behavior during the sleep study that may require intervention.

Able to utilize sophisticated equipment to obtain studies with an extended montage to allow for seizure monitoring.

Ability to utilize the more limited equipment that allows monitoring of respiratory parameters in sleep.

Maintain the guidelines on infection control for our laboratory and interfaces with manufacturers to determine appropriate specifications and with our infectious control group and SPD to insure that we are following safe and appropriate procedures.

Disseminate this information on a regular basis to other staff via in-service presentations and informal teaching to make sure guidelines are followed.

Assist in teaching new technologists on use of equipment and newer techniques and insure that they are proficient in these techniques.

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday - 08:00am - 04:30pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 25004-F/25005-F25006-F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized