Polysomnographic Technologist

HealthPartners; Saint Louis Park (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Polysomnographic Technologist to join their team in Saint Louis Park. This position involves performing sleep studies, monitoring patients, and generating detailed reports on sleep patterns. The role requires specific educational qualifications and certifications, along with a commitment to patient safety and care.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement program

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance program

Onsite clinic

Qualifications

• Certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support.
• Knowledge of cardiorespiratory monitoring, EEG, ECG, EMG, and pulse oximetry.
• Ability to recognize sleep pathology.

Responsibilities

• Perform and evaluate overnight polysomnograms.
• Monitor and record sleep/wake physiology using specialized equipment.
• Identify normal/abnormal sleep patterns and generate comprehensive reports.

Skills

Knowledge of sleep physiology

Basic Life Support

Patient safety awareness

Education

Associate or bachelor’s Degree in Polysomnography

Job description

Park Nicollet is looking to hire a Polysomnographic Technologist to join our team! Come join us as a Partner for Good and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day.

POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:

The Polysomnographic Technologist works under medical supervision to perform and evaluate overnight polysomnograms. This individual functions independently to safely operate sophisticated medical equipment to record sleep/wake physiology. The application of recording devices, cleaning/sterilization of equipment and monitoring of polysomnogram are essential duties of the technologist. Polysomnographic technologists must recognize sleep pathology when it occurs in the laboratory and respond with the appropriate interventions to ensure patient safety.

Knowledge of normal cardiorespiratory, neurologic, and sleep physiology is essential to the polysomnographic technologist. The technologist understands the function of equipment used to monitor and record breathing (airflow/effort), electroencephalograms (brain waves), electrocardiograms (heart rate and rhythm), electromyograms (muscle activity), and pulse oximetry (blood oxygenation/saturation).

The polysomnographic technologist monitors nasal continuous positive pressure, oxygen, and employs ventilatory assist devices in accordance with established protocols. This individual is also Certified in Basic Life Support. The technologist also performs special procedures such as multiple sleep latency testing, pediatric polysomnography, ambulatory monitoring, and patient education.

Record review/scoring of polysomnograms is an integral part of the job and may consume as much time as data acquisition. The identification of normal/abnormal patterns, artifacts, and sleep/wake stages is critical to high quality patient care. The polysomnographic technologist generates a report that accurately and concisely summarizes the patient’s sleep/wake stages, respiratory events, cardiac event, limb movements, arousal analysis, and other clinical events.

Schedule:

• Sunday-Tuesday
• 7:30pm-7:30am

Required Qualifications:

• Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:
  • Associate or bachelor’s Degree from a CAAHEP, CoARC, or CoA PSG accredited program in Polysomnography or Respiratory Therapy with a PSG concentration or Electroneurodiagnostics with a PSG concentration or comparable allied health field with PSG concentration.
• Licensure/ Registration/ Certification:
  • Certification by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist.
  • Certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Demonstrates knowledge of age-related growth and development principles necessary to provide appropriate service and assure safety of patients.

Benefits:

Park Nicollet offers a competitive benefits package (for eligible positions) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, a retirement program, time away from work, insurance options, tuition reimbursement, an employee assistance program, onsite clinic and much more