Lead Polysomnographic Technologist

Regions Hospital is hiring a Lead Polysomnographic Technologist.

The Lead 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. performs special procedures such as multiple sleep latency testing, pediatric polysomnography, ambulatory monitoring, and patient education.
• Records 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.
• 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.

Work schedule: FTE: 1.0 (40 hrs. weekly), Day Shift

Required Qualifications:

Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:

Associate degree with an emphasis in polysomnography.

Three to five years of scoring experience

Licensure/ Registration/ Certification:

Certification by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist.

Certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support

Benefits:

RHSC Inc. offers a competitive benefits package (.5 FTE or greater) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, 401k with match, disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Benefits take effect first day of employment. We offer an on-site employee fitness center, an on-site physical therapy clinic for employees as well as an on-site employee clinic to make it more convenient for our staff to get the care they need. We also have a Center for Employee Resilience that provides support and evidence-based practices to bring relief and build resiliency. Regions Hospital is a qualified non-profit employer under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Regions is also proud to be a Yellow Ribbon Company.