Polysomnography Technologist II

Healthier Mississippi People (HMP); Flowood (MS); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Healthier Mississippi People (HMP) is seeking a polysomnographic technologist to conduct daytime and nighttime sleep studies and provide comprehensive evaluation and education for sleep disorders. The role includes scoring studies and assisting with equipment upkeep to ensure accurate results.

Responsibilities include supervising techs, assigning studies, documenting procedures, and participating in clinic activities or managerial duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Education and certification required for BRPT or AASM recognition.
• Experience with sleep study protocols and equipment is preferred.
• Ability to educate patients about testing procedures and results.

Responsibilities

• Perform daytime and nighttime polysomnographic exams on sleeping patients.
• Score sleep studies for physicians to review and interpret.
• Teach and train new techs in procedures and responsibilities.
• Assign studies and oversee all studies performed by techs nightly.
• Follow protocols and document data for scoring and interpretation.
• Attend sleep study clinic, perform tech consults, and assist manager as needed.
• Collect and analyze patient information to tailor testing parameters.
• Prepare and calibrate equipment and report supply needs.
• Maintain equipment and comply with safety and infection control standards.
• Recognize that duties may evolve and adapt as required.

Skills

Sleep disorders knowledge

Polysomnographic scoring

Equipment calibration

Verbal communication

Written communication

Data analysis

Procedure adherence

Interpersonal skills

Patient education

Education

RPSGT/RST registration

Job description

Job Summary

To conduct polysomnographic exams on patients in order to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders. To provide polysomnographic, diagnostic, and therapeutic services of patient care and education. To score sleep studies and help with cleaning and upkeep of equipment and sensors.

Responsibilities

Performs a variety of both daytime and nighttime polysomnographic exams on sleeping patients to detect common sleep disorders.

Scores and results sleep studies to completion for the physicians to review and interpret and gives scoring and decision making feedback to the techs that ran the studies when needed.

Teach and train new and less experienced techs in the procedures, techniques, responsibilities and expectations of a tech at this facility.

Assign studies and nightly duties to other techs on a nightly basis, oversee all studies being performed by all techs.

Follows procedural protocols to ensure collection of appropriate data. Documents procedures and data recorded from exams in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.

Attends sleep study clinic, perform tech consults, and complete other managerial duties as assigned when needed or when manager is out.

Collects, analyzes and integrates patient information in order to identify and meet patient‑specific needs and to determine final testing parameters. Explains pre‑testing, testing and post‑testing procedures to the patient in order to educate the patient.

Prepares and calibrates equipment used for testing to determine proper functioning and makes adjustments if necessary.

Keep track of supplies and supply needs to report to manager for ordering, as well as, performs equipment care and maintenance and complies with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and standards regarding safety and infection control issues.

The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all‑inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge about sleep, sleep disorders, and testing procedures. Skilled in recognizing and providing age specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of patients. Skill in the preparation and calibration of equipment used for testing. Verbal and written communication skills. Interpersonal skills. Ability to gather and analyze patient information. Ability to follow procedural protocols. Ability to document routine observations including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure and significant events. Ability to score studies to completion.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, occasional exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, occasional work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, occasional sitting, occasional standing, occasional twisting, and occasional walking. (occasional‑up to 20%, frequent‑from 21% to 50%, constant‑51% or more)

Requirements

Education and Experience

Meet the educational requirements for registry by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologist as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) or by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine as a Registered Sleep Technologist (RST)

Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required

Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR); Certified as a RPSGT or RST