Job Description
Job Description
Salary :
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.
30+ days ago