Sleep Technician - REGISTERED - Night Shift - Murray - Full-Time, Part-Time, PRN Positions Available

Sleep Technician - Night Shift

Granger Medical Clinic has an immediate opening for a Sleep Technician at our Murray location to work the night schedule.

A Sleep Technician performs comprehensive polysomnographic testing and analysis, and associated interventions under the general oversight of a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) and/or the clinical director (MD, PhD, DO) or designee. This Sleep technician will work the night shift. We will train candidates who are not registered sleep technicians.

Title: Sleep Technician

Location: Murray

Department: Sleep and Lung

Position Status: Full-Time

Schedule: 6 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

Pay Range: $18 - $26 Depending upon experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide age specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of adult, and geriatric patients.

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards regarding safety and infection control issues.

• Perform routine equipment care and maintenance and inventory evaluation.

• Demonstrate effective written and spoken communication skills.

• Demonstrate appropriate social skills.

• Demonstrate ability to follow direction.

• Respond to study participant's procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.

Essential Functions and Duties:

• Review history, physical information, medications, procedure request, and study protocol.

• Complete and verify 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 physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments, if necessary.

• Perform routine positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.

• Follow procedural protocols [such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP and oxygen titration, etc.] to ensure collection of appropriate data.

• Follow "lights out" procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.)

• 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 (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.)

• Follow "lights on" procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (e.g., repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, etc.)

Education and Experience:

• High School Graduate or G.E.D. equivalent.

• Current CPR BLS certification through AHA or Red Cross

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear.

• The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.