Sleep Tech II

Job description

Overview Independently performs routine and specialized overnight and day sleep studies Responsibilities: - Performs overnight and day sleep studies, routine and specialized, on a variety of patients within all age groups excluding neonate and infant - Explain testing procedures to patients to obtain cooperation and reduce anxiety. - Monitor patients’ comfort and safety during tests, alerting physicians to abnormalities or changes in patient responses. - Obtain and record patient identification and medical history. - Adjust equipment and controls according to physicians’ orders or established protocol. - Prepare and position patients for testing. - Check, test, and maintain equipment, making minor repairs when necessary, to ensure proper operation. - Scores sleep studies and generates reports summarizing data and physiological events. - Attends workshops, seminars, lectures and other programs as appropriate to gain knowledge of current trends in sleep disorders and techniques to insure high quality/effective studies. - Must be adaptive and flexible to handle situations because of emergencies, changing workload, personnel shortages, new instrumentation, new procedures, changes in pr...