Sleep Technologist - Full-Time

Overview

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!

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.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

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