Facility Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Must have and keep an active Basic Life Support (BCLS) Certification.
• Demonstrate effective written and spoken communication skills.
• Demonstrate mature professional behaviors.
• Promotes a positive working environment.

Responsibilities

• Collects, analyzes and integrates patient information in order to identify and meet the patient-specific needs, and to determine final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or facility director and laboratory protocols.
• Explains pre-testing, testing and post-testing procedures to patients.
• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments if necessary.
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to published standards.
• Perform appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Perform routine positive airway procedure (PAP) mask fitting.
• Follow procedural protocols such as (MSLT) Multiple Sleep Latency Test, (MWT) Maintenance of Wakefulness Test, parasomnia studies, PAP and oxygen titration, etc. to ensure collection of proper data.
• Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.).
• Performs Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Performs HSAT both with and without effort monitoring.
• Document 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.
• Implement appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic interventions such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.).
• Follows “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (repeats the instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing the questionnaires, etc.).
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide age specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of all age patients.
• Oversees and performs difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions.
• Score sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
• Generate accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical events.
• Performs routine and complex equipment care and maintenance.
• Evaluate sleep study related equipment inventory.
• Respond to study participant’s procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.
• Comply with BRPT Standards of Conduct.
• Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury.
• Ensure compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Complies with the Cabell Huntington Hospital attendance and tardiness policy.
• Completed all CHH and department specific requirements in the prior calendar year.