Polysomnographic Technologist
Polysomnographic Technologist
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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 patients 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 bachelors 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
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