Job Description
Description
Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.
Summary:
A Registered Polysomnography Technologist works under the general supervision of the medical director (MD, DO or PhD) or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders including in center and out of center sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education. A sleep technologist is able to perform the duties for a sleep technologist and is able to provide oversight of other sleep center staff. The sleep technologist is credentialed in sleep technology.
Responsibilities:
• Performs polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identifies and corrects signal abnormalities.
• 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.
• Scores sleep studies in an accurate and timely manner.
• Exercises independent clinical judgment in the absence of immediately available medical direction within the scope of practice.
• Evaluates situations/patient conditions when clinical intervention is required so that no patient condition deteriorates as a result of misjudgment.
Other information:
Required
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist by BRPT.
• Successful completion of a sleep technology program associated with a state licensed and/or a nationally accredited educational facility or successful completion of an accredited educational program leading to a certificate or associate degree with an emphasis in sleep technology.
Preferred
• One (1) year of working experience performing sleep studies, including PAP titrations (i.e., CPAP, BiLevel and other approved devices).
Job Details
Legal Employer: Pardee - HCHC
Entity: Pardee UNC Health Care
Organization Unit: Sleep Lab
Work Type: Per Diem
Standard Hours Per Week: 0.20
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Variable
Location of Job: PARDEEHOSP
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
Description
Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.
Summary:
A Registered Polysomnography Technologist works under the general supervision of the medical director (MD, DO or PhD) or designee to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders including in center and out of center sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education. A sleep technologist is able to perform the duties for a sleep technologist and is able to provide oversight of other sleep center staff. The sleep technologist is credentialed in sleep technology.
Responsibilities:
• Performs polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identifies and corrects signal abnormalities.
• 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.
• Scores sleep studies in an accurate and timely manner.
• Exercises independent clinical judgment in the absence of immediately available medical direction within the scope of practice.
• Evaluates situations/patient conditions when clinical intervention is required so that no patient condition deteriorates as a result of misjudgment.
Other information:
Required
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist by BRPT.
• Successful completion of a sleep technology program associated with a state licensed and/or a nationally accredited educational facility or successful completion of an accredited educational program leading to a certificate or associate degree with an emphasis in sleep technology.
Preferred
• One (1) year of working experience performing sleep studies, including PAP titrations (i.e., CPAP, BiLevel and other approved devices).
Job Details
Legal Employer: Pardee - HCHC
Entity: Pardee UNC Health Care
Organization Unit: Sleep Lab
Work Type: Per Diem
Standard Hours Per Week: 0.20
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Variable
Location of Job: PARDEEHOSP
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
About UNC Health
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.
UNC Health and its 33,000 employees, continue to serve as North Carolina’s Health Care System, caring for patients from all 100 counties and beyond our borders. We continue to leverage the world class research conducted in the UNC School of Medicine, translating that innovation to life-saving and life-changing therapies, procedures, and techniques for the patients who rely on us.
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