Sleep Technologist - Full-Time

Company: Springhill Medical Center
Location: Mobile
Posted on: November 19, 2023

Job Description:

Come join our team of professionals that are committed to delivering the best patient care! If you would like to be part of a growing family-focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork, and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

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Springhill Medical Center is a full service hospital serving southwest Alabama. Our surgical services include outpatient, inpatient, open-heart and robotic surgery. The hospital is equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment, meaning doctors have advanced technology to help them quickly determine a patient's health problem. Springhill's unique heart center offers state-of-the-art services all under one roof. The campus is also home to primary care physicians, a senior residence, sleep center, cancer center, orthopaedic surgery center, wound care & hyperbaric center, and an emergency department staffed by all board-certified emergency medicine physicians.

Pre-Employment Requirements:

+ We are a drug free facility. Passing a pre-employment drug screening is required.

+ All employees are required to be vaccinated or provide a valid medical or religious exemption.

Requirements:

+ Validation of a high school diploma or equivalent required.

+ Must be a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPsgT).

+ Must have CPR certification.

+ Minimum of one year as a Sleep Technologist.

Job Responsibilities:

+ Perform nighttime and daytime sleep studies including NPSG, CPAP titration, MSLT and MWT as specified in Sleep Lab protocols.

+ Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make appropriate adjustments.

+ Perform data acquisition while monitoring studies to ensure signals are free of artifact and to document, identify and correct any such artifacts.

+ Document routine observations during sleep studies including changes in procedure, clinical events sleep stages and other events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of sleep studies

+ Perform operational checks prior to initiating sleep studies to ensure all equipment is working safely and adequately.

+ Attach all electrodes and transduces to patients prior to sleep studies.

+ Score sleep/wake stages and sleep-related events (respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) using AASM standards. Present all scoring to Clinical Director the morning after the sleep study for review.

+ Implement appropriate interventions such as O2 therapy or PAP therapy according to Laboratory Policy and Procedures

+ Perform positive airway pressure interface fitting and education.

+ Clean all non-disposable electrodes and transducers after sleep studies are performed.

+ Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards related to safety and infection control issues.

+ Recognize and respond to cardiac emergencies during sleep studies.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

+ Demonstrated computer skills

+ Ability to work with minimal supervision

+ Demonstrated critical thinking, ability to analyze complex situation

+ Ability to initiate appropriate therapeutic interventions according to protocol

+ Ability to troubleshoot laboratory equipment

+ Ability to maintain accurate records

+ Analytical and organizational skill

+ Ability to work as a member of a team

+ Good to excellent verbal and communication skills

+ Ability to set up and monitor two to three patients independently

+ Ability to demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures

Job ID: 2022-2005

Shift 2: Nights

External Company URL: https://www.springhillmedicalcenter.com/

Street: 3719 Dauphin St

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