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Position Summary

Works under the general supervision of the medical director or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders. This may involve polysomnography, diagnostic and therapeutic services or patient care and education.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the Job

• Gathers and analyzes patient information: Reviews history, physical information, medications, procedure request, and study protocol. Completes and verifies documentation. Explains the procedure and orients the patient and family members to the sleep center.
• Polysomnographic Procedures: Prepares and calibrates equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments, if necessary. Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards. Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments, if necessary. Performs routine positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.
• Polysomnographic Testing Procedures: Follows department procedural protocols for Routine Polysomnography, MSLT, MWT, ETC02, TcpC02, CPAP/BPAP/ASV and oxygen titration, to ensure collection of appropriate data. Follows ‘lights out’ procedures to establish and document baseline values. Performs Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and adjusts, if necessary. Follows “Lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process.
• Home Sleep Testing: Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform portable monitoring Home Testing (HST) including equipment preparation, data download, setup, education, and instruction.
• Documentation: Documents routine observations, including sleeps stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of Polysomnographic study results. Implements appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, ASV titrations, oxygen administration, etc.) in both pediatric and adult sleep patients. Performs accurate and timely documentation and billing/charging in patient chart and Hospital EMR system for all interventions in the patient’s medical record. Completes all tech logs, titration sheets and technologist notes accurately.
• Polysomnographic Record Scoring: Assists with scoring sleep/wake stages by utilizing the latest version and standards set forth in the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events. Assists with scoring clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) by utilizing the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events. Assists with the generation of accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data and completing a scoring technologist analysis for the Sleep Physician.
• Infection Control: Applies infection control policies and procedures consistently including effective hand hygiene and utilizing personal protective equipment. Uses equipment in the delivery of patient care and decontaminates equipment and supplies within the department according to department policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

*Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for this role, including but not limited to, shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities. Health and wellness is our passion at MemorialCare—that includes taking good care of employees and their dependents. We offer high quality health insurance plan options, so you can select the best choice for your family. And there’s more...Check out our MemorialCare Benefits for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications/Work Experience:

• 3+ years experience in the field of Polysomnography. In lieu of this experience, consideration will be made for an employee with strong education and associated experiential background.

Education/Licensure/Certification:

• Successful completion of an education program leading to an associate degree with an emphasis in polysomnography/or a polysomnography program of 1+ year duration associated with a state licensed and/or a nationally accredited educational facility or equivalent experience and documented proficiency at all competencies required of a Sleep Technician/ or current certification/license by the Medical Board of California and credential from the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) required.
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) license required.
• California Medical Board State License required.
• Current certification for Basic Life Support (BLS) required.