Lead Sleep Technologist-7th Floor Sleep Center-New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai-Full Time-Nights

3 months ago


New York, United States Mount Sinai Hospital Full time
Job Description

Lead Sleep Technologist-7th Floor Sleep Center-New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai-Full Time-Nights

A Lead Sleep Technologist works under the general supervision of the Medical Director or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders including in-center and out of center sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education. A Lead Sleep Technologist can perform the duties defined for a Sleep Technologist and is competent in all aspects of home sleep testing. Demonstrates organizational, computer, interpersonal and technical skills.

Responsibilities

  • Collects, analyzes and integrates patient information to identify and meet the patient-specific needs (physical/mental limitations, current emotional/physiological status regarding the testing proc
  • Determines final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.
  • Reviews the patient's history and verifies the medical order. Follows sleep center protocols related to the sleep study.
  • Upon patient arrival, verifies identification, collects documents and obtains consent for the study.
  • Explains the procedure and orients the patient for either in center or out of center sleep testing.
  • Selects appropriate equipment and calibrates for testing to determine proper functioning and adjusts, if necessary.
  • Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
  • Performs routine positive airway pressure (PAP) interface fitting and desentization.
  • Follows 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 app
  • Performs data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identifies, corrects and documents artifact.
  • Documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic result
  • Implements appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.).
  • Scores sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
  • Scores clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) utilizing AASM standards.
  • Generates accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.
  • Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide age specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
  • Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to perform portable monitoring equipment preparation and data download.
  • Performs patient education and instruction appropriate for out of center sleep testing.
  • Demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures for portable monitoring devices.
  • Demonstrates adherence to AASM scoring parameters for OCST; identify artifact, inadequate signals and study failures and generate an accurate report.
  • Complies with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards regarding safety and infection control issues.
  • Performs routine equipment care and maintenance and inventory evaluation.
  • Assists with inpatient sleep studies, both clinical and research
  • Assists with inventory and supply/equipment ordering
  • Assists with quality assurance checks, infection control monitoring, and corporate compliance
  • Complete all ad hoc projects and tasks as required or as directed by the supervisor or site director

Qualifications

  • High school graduate or the equivalent. Associate or higher degree program in polysomnographic technology preferred.
  • 5 years minimum experience as a Polysomnographic Technician or Technologist.
  • Authorized Polysomnographic Technologist licensed in New York State in good standing.
  • Certification by a nationally recognized certification board and holds the Registered Sleep Technologist (RST), Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT), or Sleep Disorders Specialist (SDS).
  • Current CPR or BLS certification

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-NYEE

SEIU 1199 at New York Eye & Ear, BXL - Sleep Study Center - 7th Floor - NYEE, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

About Us

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
  • Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
  • Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
  • Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

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