Sleep Technologist Trainee Atrium Health Rutherford/ Kings Mountain FT Nights

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Forest City, NC

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a full-time night position for a Sleep Technologist Trainee at Atrium Health Rutherford/Kings Mountain. The role involves performing various sleep studies, ensuring data collection accuracy, and providing age-specific care. The trainee will be responsible for preparing and downloading portable monitoring equipment, educating patients, and adhering to cleaning procedures. This position offers a pay range of $20.80 - $31.20 and requires the trainee to obtain RPSGT credential within 18 months of employment.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Currently enrolled in or have completed a BRPT accepted pathway to become a registered polysomnographic technologist.
• RPSGT credential within 18 months of employment required.
• BCLS CPR certification required.

Nice To Haves

• Associates Degree or Bachelor's Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Follow procedural protocols such as PSG, Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, and oxygen titration, home sleep studies, etc. to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make required adjustments.
• Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.).
• Perform data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free.
• Identify, correct, and document artifact.
• Document routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Assist with appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.).
• Follow “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (e.g., repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, and check for completeness, etc.).
• Demonstrate proficiency in recognizing sleep vs. wake and identify clinical events while monitoring sleep study patients.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide age specific care and treatment, assessment, and education of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to perform portable monitoring equipment preparation and data download.
• Perform patient education and instruction appropriate for out of center sleep testing.
• Demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures for portable monitoring devices.
• Demonstrate ability to identify artifact, inadequate signals, and study failures in portable monitoring.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards
• Competitive compensation
• Generous retirement offerings
• Programs that invest in your career development
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED