Sleep Lab Technologist — Night Shift, Polysomnography Expert

Lifepoint Health®; Ishpeming Township (MI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

UP Health System Bell, part of Lifepoint Health, seeks a Polysomnographic Technician to support a 9‑full-time position with 36 hours weekly, overnight 7pm–7am shifts. The role focuses on patient history review, setup, and accurate data collection in a sleep center.

The candidate will calibrate equipment, apply electrodes, perform physiological checks, and assist with scoring sleep stages and clinical events.

Qualifications

• Minimum: High School Diploma.
• Preferred: Associated Degree in Applied Science or 6 months sleep lab experience.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Review patient history, physical information, medications, procedure request, and study protocol.
• Complete and verify all patient information documentation.
• Explain the procedure and orient the patient to the sleep center.
• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
• Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Perform routine PAP mask fitting.
• Follow procedural protocols to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Follow 'lights out' procedures to establish and document baseline values.
• Perform polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Document routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Implement appropriate interventions.
• Follow 'lights on' procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process.
• Demonstrate knowledge to provide age-specific care for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Assist with scoring sleep/wake stages by applying guidelines.
• Assist with scoring clinical events with center-specific protocols.
• Assist with generation of accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.
• Perform routine equipment care and maintenance and inventory evaluation.
• Demonstrate self-directed learning and participate in continuing education by attendance at scheduled meetings and in-services.
• Support the culture of service excellence throughout the organization.

Education

High School Diploma

Associated Degree in Applied Science

Sleep lab experience (6 months)

Job description

UP Health System Bell, part of Lifepoint Health, seeks a Polysomnographic Technician to support a 9‑full-time position with 36 hours weekly, overnight 7pm–7am shifts. The role focuses on patient history review, setup, and accurate data collection in a sleep center.

The candidate will calibrate equipment, apply electrodes, perform physiological checks, and assist with scoring sleep stages and clinical events.