Registered Polysomnography Tech

Job Description

Description

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Summary :

A Registered Polysomnography Technologist works under the general supervision of the medical director (MD, DO or PhD) or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders including in center and out of center sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education. A sleep technologist is able to perform the duties for a sleep technologist and is able to provide oversight of other sleep center staff. The sleep technologist is credentialed in sleep technology.

Responsibilities :

• Performs polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identifies and corrects signal abnormalities.
• 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.
• Scores sleep studies in an accurate and timely manner.
• Exercises independent clinical judgment in the absence of immediately available medical direction within the scope of practice.
• Evaluates situations / patient conditions when clinical intervention is required so that no patient condition deteriorates as a result of misjudgment.

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Job Details

Legal Employer : Pardee - HCHC

Entity : Pardee UNC Health Care

Organization Unit : Sleep Lab

Work Type : Part Time

Standard Hours Per Week : 20.00

Work Assignment Type : Onsite

Work Schedule : Night Job

Location of Job : PARDEEHOSP

Exempt From Overtime : Exempt : No

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.