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About The Position

Requirements

• Certification as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT).
• Active Basic Life Support (BCLS) Certification.
• Effective written and spoken communication skills.
• Mature professional behaviors.
• Ability to promote a positive working environment.

Nice To Haves

• Works under the supervision of the Sleep Disorders Clinical Coordinator.

Responsibilities

• Collects, analyzes, and integrates patient information to identify and meet 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.
• Prepares and calibrates equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and makes adjustments if necessary.
• Applies electrodes and sensors according to published standards.
• Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and makes adjustments, if necessary.
• Performs routine positive airway procedure (PAP) mask fitting.
• Follows procedural protocols such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP and oxygen titration, etc., to ensure collection of proper data.
• Follows “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 makes adjustments, if necessary.
• Performs HSAT both with and without effort monitoring.
• Documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Implements 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 completes the data collection process (repeats instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing 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.
• Scores sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
• Generates accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical events.
• Performs routine and complex equipment care and maintenance.
• Evaluates sleep study related equipment inventory.
• Responds to study participant’s procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.
• Complies 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.
• Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Complies with the Cabell Huntington Hospital attendance and tardiness policy.
• Completes all CHH and department-specific requirements in the prior calendar year.