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Job Highlights:

Our mission and values put the patient first and helps you to feel valued while respecting teamwork and collaboration. Our sonography roles are an integral piece in our care team and we see it as a partnership. This position is prn, working as needed. At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate people like you.

Daily Pay: Get paid daily doing the work you love in a way that fits your life. At SSM Health St Anthony, we believe you deserve the flexibility to work a schedule that fits your life and to get paid when you need it.

Job Summary:

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepares patient and equipment for ordered testing. Interviews patient to determine sleep disorder issues and to explain testing procedures.
• Performs and documents testing. Monitors the patient throughout testing and intervenes as necessary to resolve patient needs or equipment issues.
• Applies patient monitoring devices (EEG electrodes, EKG, EMG, EOG, airflow, respiratory effort, and oximetry) and records physiologic calibrations.
• Collect, analyze and integrate patient information to identify and meet patient-specific needs; scores, interprets, and reports results of sleep studies.
• Prepares, calibrates, repairs and maintains equipment required for testing. Determines and reports needed repairs/replacements.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling and running.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 
 
State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin 

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) 
• And 
• Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) - Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) 
• Or 
• Registered Sleep Technologist (RST) - American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM)

Work Shift:

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