Polysomnography Tech II

Job description

Description Job Summary: To conduct polysomnographic exams on patients in order to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders. To provide polysomnographic, diagnostic, and therapeutic services of patient care and education. To score sleep studies and help with cleaning and upkeep of equipment and sensors. Responsibilities: Performs a variety of both daytime and nighttime polysomnographic exams on sleeping patients to detect common sleep disorders. Scores and results sleep studies to completion for the physicians to review and interpret and gives scoring and decision making feedback to the techs that ran the studies when needed. Teach and train new and less experienced techs in the procedures, techniques, responsibilities and expectations of a tech at this facility. Assign studies and nightly duties to other techs on a nightly basis, oversee all studies being performed by all techs. Follows procedural protocols to ensure collection of appropriate data. Documents procedures and data recorded from exams in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results. Attends sleep study clinic, perform tech consults, and complete other managerial d...