Medical Instrument Technician (Polysomnography)

Department of Veterans Affairs • Lebanon, PA

50d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is in the Respiratory Section, Medicine Care Line, Lebanon VA Medical Center, Lebanon, PA. The Polysomnographer is responsible for operating or monitoring diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment and instruments associated with polysomnograhy to adults and geriatric patients at the Lebanon VA Medical Center (VAMC).

The following is a summary of the major essential functions of this job. The Incumbent may perform other related duties as assigned, both major and minor not mentioned below; periodically specific functions may change.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge of standard, computerized polysomnography for recording continuous physiological data including Electroencephalogram, Electrooculogram, Electrocardiogram, Electromyogram, and Respiratory parameters.
• Demonstrates knowledge and experience in customer service activities.
• Demonstrates skills to include computer literacy, typing, telephone communications, and patient documentation.
• Operates and maintains the electroencephalograph and other devices to record the electrical activity of the brain during sleep.
• Effectively assures quality customer service in accordance with company written policies and procedures.
• Builds credibility for the organization through effective communication and servicing of patient needs through quality patient care.
• Responsible for answering telephone, screening and directing calls appropriately.
• Handles customer complaints/problems per established policy and procedures.
• Knowledge of polysomnography procedural protocols (including overnight sleep studies, MSLT, MWT, PAP, etc.)
• Stays up on information necessary to deliver quality health care.
• Responsible for providing timely customer service to all walk-in customers.
• Provides coverage for EEG testing.
• Responsible for development, monitoring and reporting of quality monitors for the sleep program.
• Maintains appropriate equipment levels
• Set up of appropriate respiratory/sleep equipment to all patients admitted into service.
• Responsible for education of patients as related to the equipment given and sleep hygiene.
• Distributes questionnaires and retrieves responses from the patients, assuring copies are in the medical record.
• Responsible for tracking and monitoring all home studies and respiratory sleep equipment in patient homes.
• Responsible for ongoing quality assurance program for respiratory sleep equipment maintenance and services.
• Responsible for insuring that all technical policies and medical equipment policies and/or procedures related to respiratory equipment and services are followed.
• Monitor equipment recalls and equipment malfunctions ensuring proper safety follow-up.
• Maintain records as required by agencies to include, but not limited to: JC, FDA, OSHA and MSDS as related to all equipment and patient care.
• Responsible for independently administering complex sleep therapy treatments and procedures under a physician's orders.
• Ability to properly assess patient's condition using examination and other clinical data.
• Ability to demonstrate and instruct patients, family and health care providers on the proper use of sleep equipment and procedures.
• Ability to maintain accurate inventories of sleep equipment.
• Ability to coordinate the distribution, retrieval and data management of unattended sleep studies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of computers sufficient to perform data management task and downloading of data streams from patient monitoring systems.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees