Lead Polysomnographic Tech - Sleep Lab (Nights)

 

Conducts the data collection phase of the Sleep Study and as needed scores the completed study. The technologist will follow approved policies and protocols in order to prepare a study and or score in preparation for reading. This person will be held to the highest level of customer service representation and will be an active participant of our continuous quality improvement process.

Education
High School Diploma or GED

Experience
Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.

Licenses & Certifications
*Healthcare Provider (CPR)
*Registered Polysomnographic Tech

Area of Responsibilities
*Accurately evaluates self and meets pre-established professional goals
*Knowledgeable of department policies and procedures and standards of care/practice
*Participates in performance improvement activities by helping to identify, monitor and achieve improvement goals established by the department.
*Performs sleep studies per policy and protocol and within the guidelines of regulatory agencies. Demonstrates capability of utilizing equipment and software. This also includes appropriate documentation of study and maintenance of sufficient supplies for doing work.
*Provides exceptional customer service to patients, visitors, physicians, and other employees. Through the established systems and protocols used to evaluate staff for excellent customer service employee will achieve the set goals.
*Accurately evaluates self and meets pre-established professional goals
*Acts as preceptor/mentor for students and new employees
*Acts as preceptor/mentor for students and new employees
*Attends monthly staff meetings.
*Communicates effectively and therapeutically in health care setting
*Communicates effectively and therapeutically in health care setting
*Confers with management to identify, plan, and develop methods and procedures to obtain greater efficiency, which includes the coordination of sleep center functions.
*Demonstrate adherence to AASM scoring parameters for OCST. identify artifact, inadequate signals and study failures and generate an accurate report
*Demonstrate adherence to AASM scoring parameters for OCST. identify artifact, inadequate signals and study failures and generate an accurate report
*Demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures for portable monitoring devices
*Demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures for portable monitoring devices
*Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to perform portable monitoring equipment preparation and data download
*Demonstrates behaviors necessary for age-specific care and knowledge of decision making process for all ages of the population(s) served. Demonstrates ability to communicate appropriately with various ages. Demonstrates ability to adapt technique/treatment to age of the patient served. As appropriate involves family/significant other in the treatment process.
*Demonstrates behaviors necessary for age-specific care and knowledge of decision making process for all ages of the population(s) served. Demonstrates ability to communicate appropriately with various ages. Demonstrates ability to adapt technique/treatment to age of the patient served. As appropriate involves family/significant other in the treatment process.
*Demonstrates the ability to set priorities to complete daily assignments
*Demonstrates the ability to set priorities to complete daily assignments
*Ensures that employees report to work on time, and completes daily shift duties.
*Evaluate sleep study related equipment and inventory
*Formulates recommendations for personnel and operational policies to management.
*Knowledgeable of department policies and procedures and standards of care/practice
*Maintain current CPR or BLS certification
*Maintain current CPR or BLS certification
*Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of department and equipment
*Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of department and equipment
*Oversees procedures to assure effective utilization of staff.
*Participates in continuing education as mandated per policy.
*Participates in continuing education as mandated per policy.
*Participates in multi disciplinary patient care conferences.
*Participates in multi disciplinary patient care conferences.
*Participates in performance improvement activities by helping to identify, monitor and achieve improvement goals established by the department.
*Perform patient education and instruction appropriate for out of center sleep testing
*Perform patient education and instruction appropriate for out of center sleep testing
*Performs sleep studies per policy and protocol and within the guidelines of regulatory agencies. Demonstrates capability of utilizing equipment and software. This also includes appropriate documentation of study and maintenance of sufficient supplies for doing work.
*Provide patient education utilizing sleep center specific protocols
*Provide patient education utilizing sleep center specific protocols
*Provides exceptional customer service to patients, visitors, physicians, and other employees. Through the established systems and protocols used to evaluate staff for excellent customer service employee will achieve the set goals.
*Responsible for maintaining all professional registrations and certifications
*Responsible for maintaining all professional registrations and certifications
*Responsible for training, evaluating, and initiating disciplinary action for all employees supervised.
*Score sleep wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines. Score clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) utilizing AASM standards
*Score sleep wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines. Score clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) utilizing AASM standards
*Supervises and coordinates the activities of the sleep center staff, recommending measures to improve performance and increase efficiency.
*Supervises sleep center technologists.
*Typically, checks and approves all reports for interpretation prior to sending them to be read.

Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Education
High School Diploma or GED

Experience
Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.

Licenses & Certifications
*Healthcare Provider (CPR)
*Registered Polysomnographic Tech

Supervision
*Must have ability to lead employees and delegate work assignments.
*Supervises and directs employees in the sleep center department as assigned and in accordance with established policies and procedures.
*Supervisory ability to train and evaluate staff.

Definitions
*Conducts the data collection phase of the Sleep Study and as needed scores the completed study. The technologist will follow approved policies and protocols in order to prepare a study and or score in preparation for reading. This person will be held to the highest level of customer service representation and will be an active participant of our continuous quality improvement process.

Contact With Others
Requires frequent but limited contacts with many others to do job, or extensive contacts with a limited number of categories of people to apply procedures or treatment. Requires discretion and tact to interpret departmental procedures.

Effect Of Error
Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.

Supervisory Responsibility
Supervises a small section of employees (up to 15); orients and trains employees; schedules, assigns, checks, and maintains flow of employees work; carries out most personnel decisions, and initiates minor personnel actions.

Mental Demands
Work involves a variety of problems in a general field, some of which are complex. Involves some independent judgment to decide what to do to assemble facts, determine variations from standard procedures, or plan other action to be taken to meet general objectives.

Physical Effort
Moderate physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment for about half of the day. Very occasional physical effort with medium weight objects (25- 60 lbs.). Office or laboratory work requires close visual effort and concentration more than half of day. Works in reaching or strained positions for less than half of day.

Working Conditions
Minor - Occasionally involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects For Immunizations
*Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles)


Physical Aspects

Continually (at least once per day)
*Visual

Frequently (at least 3 times a week)
*Color Vision
*Speaking

Occasionally (at least once a month)
*Bending
*Typing
*Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching with fingers etc.
*Feeling (Touch) - determining temperature, texture, by touching
*Hearing
*Reaching - above shoulder
*Reaching - below shoulder
*Standing
*Balancing
*Walking
*Running - In response to an emergency
*Lifting up to 25 lbs.
*Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.
*Lifting over 60 lbs.
*Handling - seizing, holding, grasping
*Carrying
*Kneeling
*Squatting
*N95 Respirator usage (PPE)
*Pushing/Pulling - up to 25 lbs.
*Pushing/Pulling - 25 to 60 lbs.
*Pushing/Pulling - over 60 lbs.