Registered Polysomnographic Technologist

Description

The work location for this position is Lewiston, Idaho

Full-Time: 72 hours per pay period

Hours: 12-hr night shift (7pm – 7am); You will receive 11% night shift differential

Benefits May Include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401k w/ employer match
• Short & Long-term disabilities
• Life & AD&D insurances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance
• and more?

Position Summary:

The Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (Tech) works under the general supervision of Director, Supervisors or designee.  Provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders.  This may involve polysomnography, diagnostic and therapeutic services, or patient care and education.  The Tech applies and calibrates a range of monitoring and testing devices to specified sleep disorder patients, in accordance with pre-established clinical protocol.  The Tech takes various physiological and neurological measurements of sleeping and waking states, using a range of instrumentation.

The Tech must demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served in his/her department.  The individual must acquire and/or demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.  He/she must be able to provide care with consideration of developmental status.

Primary (Essential) Duties:

• Collect, analyze and integrate patient information to identify and meet patient-specific needs, i.e., physical/mental limitations, current emotional/physiological status regarding testing procedure, pertinent medical/social history, and to determine final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or Department Director and laboratory protocols.
• Complete and verify documents.
• Explain pre-testing, testing and post-testing procedures to the patient and respond to study participant’s procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.
• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing.
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted standards.
• Perform appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments if necessary.
• Perform positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting, if appropriate.
• Follow procedural protocols, e.g., Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of
• Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, oxygen titration, etc., to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Follow Alights out@ procedures to establish and document baseline values, such as body position, oxyhomoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.
• Perform polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments if necessary.
• Document routine observations including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Implement appropriate interventions as well as oversee and perform difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions, including actions necessary for patient safety and continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxy-gen administration, etc.
• Follow Alights on@ procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process.  Repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, etc.
• Score sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
• Score clinical events, such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movement, arousals, etc., according to specific protocols.
• Generate accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards regarding safety and infection control issues.
• Perform routine and complex equipment care and maintenance and evaluate sleep-study related equipment and inventory.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze complex situations and apply policy.
• The above statements reflect the general duties considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job as identified and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the position.
  

Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position.  While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.

Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

Qualifications

Required:

One of the Following:

• Associates degree with emphasis in polysomnography from an accredited program
• One (1) year vocational program through an accredited educational facility
• Equivalent experience and documented proficiency of competencies required of a Polysomnographic Tech

AND

• Certification by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist

• BLS on first day or to be assigned by the Learning Center

  
  

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