RPSGT - Northwestern Kishwaukee - Dekalb, IL

Medbridge Healthcare•DeKalb Township, IL

2h•Hybrid

About The Position

Seeking RPSGTs to work at Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital and travel to surrounding labs. The role involves gathering and analyzing patient information, collecting, analyzing, and integrating patient data to meet specific needs, and completing and verifying documentation. Responsibilities include explaining testing procedures to patients, preparing and calibrating equipment, verifying video recording functionality, applying electrodes and sensors, performing physiologic calibrations, and fitting PAP masks. The position also requires following procedural protocols for various sleep studies, establishing baseline values, acquiring polysomnographic data while monitoring signal quality, and documenting observations every 20 minutes to facilitate scoring and interpretation.

Responsibilities

Gather and analyze patient information, including physical/mental limitations, emotional/physiological status, and medical/social history, to determine testing parameters in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.
Complete and verify documentation.
Explain pre-testing, testing, and post-testing procedures to the patient.
Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments if necessary.
Verify patient video recording(s) is operating properly per laboratory standard protocol.
Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
Perform appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments if necessary.
Perform positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.
Follow procedural protocols such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, oxygen titration etc. to ensure collection of appropriate data.
Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin 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 observations every 20 minutes on recording and in technical comments to include: sleep stage, clinical events, position changes, pressure changes, SaO2 values, heart rate, and respiratory rate, changes in procedure, and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.