Polysomnography Technologist

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Responsible for monitoring and accessing Sleep Lab quality, policies and procedures, staff and equipment performance. Communicates and educates patients and families regarding sleep disorders and treatments. Consults with referring physicians regarding patient results.

Does this position require Patient Care? Yes

• Performs polysomnographic studies in a clinical setting, including oxygen and nasal continuous positive airway pressure titrations
• Scores studies and formulates reports for physician interpretation. Documents all pertinent patient events according to department policy
• Communicates instructions, results, and relative information to patients, physicians, and family members
• Calibrates and performs routine and troubleshooting maintenance on equipment; notifies proper personnel for equipment problems; cleans all equipment ensuring infection control
• Consults with physicians regarding patient studies as needed
• Maintains standards for completeness of quality improvement and quality control measurements
• May establish and implement performance improvements including education and staff development

High School Diploma or Equivalent required and Associate's Degree Health Sciences preferred

• Basic Life Support [BLS Certification] - Data Conversion - Various Issuers preferred
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist [RPSGT] - Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists preferred
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist [RPSGT] - Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists preferred
• Registered Sleep Technologist [RST] - American Board of Sleep Medicine preferred

Polysomnography Tech experience with multiple patient populations 1-2 years preferred

Will work very independently and under general supervision to support the technical operations of the Sleep Reading Center. Responsibilities include executing protocols involving a variety of routine and non-routine experiments at a professional level: processing, scoring, editing, analyzing, and quality checking data from a wide range of data collection systems and sources, maintaining databases of polysomnographic (PSG) data, including data collected for heart rate and rhythm (ECG), sleep stages (EEG), muscle activity (EMG), oxygen saturation, carbon dioxide, respiration, and peripheral arterial tone (PAT), as well as data collected from actigraphy to estimate movement and sleep-wake times, and from other devices used to assess sleep and physical activity.

The data will be obtained from studies obtained from clinical research sites across the U.S. participating in NIH-funded multicenter studies and other research studies. The Technologist will also analyze data quality trends and identify studies that meet study-specific criteria for urgent medical referrals that require timely physician notification due to extreme physiological abnormalities.

• Good communication skills.
• Ability to effectively evaluate and problem solve.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to guide, teach, and motivate others.
• Good business acumen skills.

McLean Hospital Sleep Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Belmont MA.

Per Diem position

12-hour 7:00pm to 7:00am shift

Polysomnographic Technologist /PSG,T. experience is needed.

RPSG,T. preferred but not required.

Technologist will be responsible for providing comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders by conducting sleep studies and producing high quality sleep recordings. Attended overnight sleep studies are included as part of diagnostic testing for (open) inpatient psychiatric units.

• Obtaining 16 channel artifact-free polysomnographic data on two patients per shift
• Titrating CPAP
• Calibrating equipment
• Providing patient care

• 1+ year experience as a Sleep Technologist
• Registered Sleep Technologist preferred
• Scoring experience preferred

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