What are the responsibilities and job description for the Polysomnographic Technologist position at Howard University Hospital?
Job Description
Job Description
FT Polysomnographic Technologist - 36hrs per week 7 : 00pm-7 : 30am shifts with a weekend component
Pay Range : $23.41-$37.46 / hr (actual offer rates are based upon the applicants relevant experience pertaining to the position)
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 the campus of a Historically Black University and 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 who are doing just that, making a difference.
The candidate will :
- Collect, analyze and integrate patient information in order to identify and meet the patient-specific needs (physical / mental limitations, current emotional / physiological status regarding the testing procedure, pertinent medical / social history).
- 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 in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of Polysomnographic results.
- Reviews history, physical information, medications, and procedure request and study protocol. Completes and verifies documentation. Explains the procedure and orients the patient to the Sleep Center.
- Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
- Perform routine positive airway pressure (PAP) interface fitting and desensitization.
- Follows “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.)
- Follows “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (e.g. repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, etc.)
- Follows procedural protocols [such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, and oxygen titration, to ensure collection of appropriate data.
- Demonstrate 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 patients.
- Scoring clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movement, arousals, etc) with center specific protocols.
- Assumes other duties and responsibilities that are related and appropriate to the position and area. The above responsibilities are a general description of the level and nature of the work assigned to this classification and are not to be considered as all-inclusive.
Qualified candidates will possess :
At Howard University Hospital our job is to care for you. We do this by offering :
COVID-19 Vaccination
GR8Allied Healthcare
Salary : $23 - $37
