Polysomnographic Technologist, PRN
3 months ago
With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation's only teaching hospital located on a Historically Black University campus. It has created a superior learning environment with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.
Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Polysomnographic Technologist who will embrace our rich and historic tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in someone's life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals doing just that: making a difference.
The candidate will PRN as needed, 7 pm-730am.
Pay: $36.00hour
- Review history, physical information, medications, procedure requests, and study protocol.
- Completes and verifies documentation.
- Explain the procedure and orient the patient to the Sleep Center.
- Prepares and calibrates equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make necessary adjustments.
- Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
- Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments if necessary.
- Performs routine positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.
- Follows procedural protocols such as the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, and oxygen titration to ensure collection of appropriate data.
- Follows "lights out" procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.)
- Performs Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments as necessary.
- Documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events to facilitate scoring and interpretation of Polysomnographic results.
- Implements appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.)
- Follows "lights on" procedures to verify the integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (e.g., repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations, instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, etc.).
- They are scoring sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
- They score clinical events (such as respiratory and cardiac events, limb movement, arousals, etc.) using center-specific protocols.
- Completing a sleep technology program associated with a state-licensed and nationally accredited educational facility or equivalent experience and documented proficiency for all competencies required of a sleep technician.
- Certification by a nationally recognized certification board and holds either the Registered Sleep Technologist (RST), Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT)
- Work-life balance
- Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
- Howard University Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. External Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination and, if offered, may elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital location
Required Skills
Successful completion of a sleep technology program associated with a state licensed and/or a nationally accredited educational facility or equivalent experience and documented proficiency for all competencies required of a sleep technician.
Certification by a nationally recognized certification board and holds either the Registered Sleep Technologist (RST), Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT)
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