Sleep Lab Technician Job at Springhill Medical Center
Overview:
Springhill Medical Center is a full service hospital serving southwest Alabama. Our surgical services include outpatient, inpatient, open-heart and robotic surgery. The hospital is equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment, meaning doctors have advanced technology to help them quickly determine a patient's health problem. Springhill's unique heart center offers state-of-the-art services all under one roof. The campus is also home to primary care physicians, a senior residence, sleep center, cancer center, orthopaedic surgery center, wound care & hyperbaric center, and an emergency department staffed by all board-certified emergency medicine physicians.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
Salary commensurate with experience
Requirements:
Job Responsibilities (all under the supervision of the center’s RPsgts):
Come join our team of professionals that are committed to delivering the best patient care! If you would like to be part of a growing family-focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork, and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Springhill Medical Center is a full service hospital serving southwest Alabama. Our surgical services include outpatient, inpatient, open-heart and robotic surgery. The hospital is equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment, meaning doctors have advanced technology to help them quickly determine a patient's health problem. Springhill's unique heart center offers state-of-the-art services all under one roof. The campus is also home to primary care physicians, a senior residence, sleep center, cancer center, orthopaedic surgery center, wound care & hyperbaric center, and an emergency department staffed by all board-certified emergency medicine physicians.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
The Sleep Lab Technician position is being established to train an individual to be a Sleep Technologist with the goal of becoming a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPsgT). The Technician will work under the supervision of the sleep lab’s Registered Technicians. He/she will also be required to take the A-Step Modules provided by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Following the completion of the A-Step modules and 18 months of clinical experience in the sleep lab, the Technician will be eligible to take the RPsgT exam to become a Registered Sleep Technologist.
Salary commensurate with experience
Requirements:
- Validation of a High School Diploma is required.
- Prior Sleep Lab or employment in medical field desirable but not required.
- Must have CPR certification.
- All employees are required to be vaccinated or provide a valid medical or religious exemption.
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
- Demonstrated computer skills
- Demonstrated critical thinking, ability to analyze complex situations
- Ability to initiate appropriate therapeutic interventions according to protocol
- Ability to troubleshoot laboratory equipment
- Ability to maintain accurate records
- Analytical and organizational skills
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Good to excellent verbal and communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures
Job Responsibilities (all under the supervision of the center’s RPsgts):
- Perform nighttime and daytime sleep studies including NPSG, CPAP titration, MSLT and MWT as specified in Sleep Lab protocols.
- Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make appropriate adjustments.
- Perform data acquisition while monitoring studies to ensure signals are free of artifact and to document, identify and correct any such artifacts.
- Document routine observations during sleep studies including changes in procedure, clinical events sleep stages and other events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of sleep studies.
- Perform operational checks prior to initiating sleep studies to ensure all equipment is working safely and adequately.
- Attach all electrodes and transduces to patients prior to sleep studies.
- Score sleep/wake stages and sleep-related events (respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) using AASM standards. Present all scoring to Clinical Director the morning after the sleep study for review.
- Implement appropriate interventions such as O2 therapy or PAP therapy according to Laboratory Policy and Procedures.
- Perform positive airway pressure interface fitting and education.
- Clean all non-disposable electrodes and transducers after sleep studies are performed.
- Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards related to safety and infection control issues.
- Recognize and respond to cardiac emergencies during sleep studies
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