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Part-Time
Sleep Technologist
PRN
Posted on 10/31/2025
Springfield Clinic
No salary listed
Springfield, IL, USA
In Person
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (2) |
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Requirements
- Current certification as a Registered Polysomnographic/Sleep Technologist, as recognized by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) and/or American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)
- CPR per American Heart Association guidelines required within 30 days of hire
- Must maintain 10 continuing education units annually that pertain to sleep medicine
- The ability to perform repetitive hand motions such as typing and calibration of equipment
- The ability to push/pull or transport objects weighing more than 100 lbs
- Ability to work in a limited space and stand for 25 to 50% of shift
Responsibilities
- 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), and to determine final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical supervisor and laboratory protocols
- Complete and verify documentation
- Explain pre-testing, testing, and post-testing procedures to the patient
- Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments if necessary
- Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards
- Perform appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and make adjustments, if necessary
- Perform positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting
- Follow procedural protocols [such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test, Maintenance of Wakefulness Test, parasomnia studies, PAP, oxygen titration etc.] to ensure collection of appropriate data
- Follow "lights out" procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, ox hemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.)
- Perform Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-racing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free and make adjustments, if necessary
- Document routing observations including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results
- Implement appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.)
- Follow "lights on" procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (repeats the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires, etc.)
- 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
- Oversee and perform difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions
- Score sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines
- Score clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals etc.) according to center specific protocols
- Generate accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data
- Participate in orientation and training of new sleep lab hires
- Serve as a resource to uncertified sleep technicians
- Comply with the Springfield Clinic incident reporting policy and procedures
- Adhere to all OSHA and Springfield Clinic training & accomplishments as required per policy
- Provide excellent customer service and adhere to SC Way customer service philosophy
- Perform other job duties as assigned
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