Sleep Technologist

Holy Name is New Jersey's last remaining independent, Catholic health system, comprising a comprehensive 361-bed acute care medical center, a cancer center, medical fitness center, residential hospice, nursing school, and physician network. The system has a national reputation for providing culturally sensitive care to a diverse population, drawing patients from across the New York City region to its specialty centers and renowned doctors. Holy Name's mission to provide technologically advanced, compassionate and personalized care extends across a continuum that encompasses education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and wellness maintenance. The system is known as a high-quality, low-cost provider of extraordinary clinical care given by compassionate, highly trained physicians and staff.

A Brief Overview:
The Polysomnographic Technologist works under the general supervision of the Medical Director (MD, DO, or PHD) or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders. This may involve polysomnography, diagnostic and therapeutic services or patient care and education. The Polysomnographic Technologist can perform the duties defined for a Polysomnographic Technician and may provide supervision of other staff.

What you will do:

• Competency with Practice Parameters and Clinical Guidelines for sleep medicine health care.
• Understand sleep architecture and identify factors contributing to normal sleep variances related to aging, gender, and medication.
• Evaluation and Management of Patient Education and Compliance.
• Collect, analyze, and integrate patient information.
• Competent with specific clinical assessments using standardized diagnostic tools (e.g. Epworth Sleepiness Scale, STOP-BANG, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index).
• Provide all aspects of instruction in caring for patients with development and an understanding of the range of treatment needed by patients.
• Monitors patient adherence to prescribed treatment, provide compliance reports as needed.
• Coordinates in-lab and home sleep apnea diagnostic testing and therapy.
• Implement and follow-up on physician orders.
• Discuss equipment/supply replacement schedule.
• Provides patient education for sleep disorders, comorbidities, therapeutic equipment and processes, therapy options, sleep hygiene and self-help.
• Empower patients, families, and caregivers to assume as much responsibility for their care as possible.
• Service Management and Essential Skills.
• Responds to study participant’s procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.
• Demonstrates the ability to analyze complex situations and apply policy.
• Complies with the BRPT Standards of Conduct.
• Participates in professional development activities.
• Maintains mask inventory for in-office fittings.

Education Qualifications:

• Trade/Vocational School Successful completion of an accredited educational program leading to an Associate’s degree with an emphasis in polysomnography. Required.

Experience Qualifications:

• Less than 1 year Successful completion of Polysomnography Program of no less than one year duration associated with a NJ State Licensed and/or a nationally accredited educational facility Required or
• Less than 1 year equivalent experience and documented proficiency at all competencies required of a Polysomnographic Technician. Required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Knowledge of polysomnography medical terminology.
• Knowledge of patient rights and laws relative to those rights, such as HIPAA.
• Ability to comply with professional standards of conduct.
• Demonstrates effective written and spoken communication skills.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) American Heart Association Upon Hire Required or
• BCLS - Basic Life Support American Heart Association Upon Hire Required and
• BRPT - Registered Polysomnographic Technologist Certification by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist or equivalent. Upon Hire Required.

Holy Name is a mission-driven facility whose quality standards and philosophy are rooted in the principles of its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Those principles are exercised daily by the Medical Center's dedicated and talented team of physicians, nurses, allied health employees, and a wide variety of non-clinical administrative and operational staff members. Holy Name is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  

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