Sleep Lab PSG Technician - Scoring & Interpretation

Care New England Health System; Warwick (RI); On-site; USD 52,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Care New England Health System seeks a Sleep Lab Technician to score sleep recordings and prepare reports for physician interpretation. The role includes evaluating PSG/MSLT, interpreting data, and assisting in promoting the sleep lab to clinicians and the community.

Qualified candidates will have vocational/technical training, 1+ year experience, and be a registered polysomnography technologist. The position emphasizes accurate data analysis and collaboration with medical staff.

Qualifications

• Vocational/technical training and a minimum of one year’s job-related experience or equivalent is required.
• Registered Polysomnography technologist certification is also required.

Responsibilities

• Performs duties of a Sleep Lab Technician and evaluates PSG and MSLT recordings. Generates computerized PSG report.
• Interprets raw data: scores polysomnogram for sleep stages using standardized criteria, computes sleep latency, sleep efficiency and percentage of sleep stages.
• Determines heart rate ranges for waking and sleeping stages; identifies and quantifies abnormalities in cardiac activity and respiration.
• Assists with marketing the sleep lab to the outside community and staff physicians.
• Provides information to medical staff regarding test capabilities and requirements to increase knowledge of polysomnographic testing; provides in-service education.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Education

Vocational/technical training

Job description

Care New England Health System seeks a Sleep Lab Technician to score sleep recordings and prepare reports for physician interpretation. The role includes evaluating PSG/MSLT, interpreting data, and assisting in promoting the sleep lab to clinicians and the community.

Qualified candidates will have vocational/technical training, 1+ year experience, and be a registered polysomnography technologist. The position emphasizes accurate data analysis and collaboration with medical staff.