What are the responsibilities and job description for the Polysomnography Student position at Gritman Medical Center?
Job Duties And Responsibilities
Required Education: Current enrolment in AASM A-Step Program
Required Licenses and/or Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS)
Functional Demands
Population(s) served: Pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
Physical Demands
Lifting: Occasional-Maximum of 40 lbs. from floor to waist height, 3 x day. Frequent-None.
Carry: Up to 5 lbs, 300 ft 10 X day
Fine Motor: High degree required patient hook-up and computer use
Computer: Up to 8 hours per day on average
Standing: Up to 1 hours at one time and 3 hours in one day
Sitting: Up to 1 hour at one time and 9 hours in one day
Kneeling: Up to 1 minute at one time and 15 minutes in one day
Crawling: None
Stooping: Up to 1 minutes at one time and 15 minutes in one day
Driving: None
Environmental conditions
Location: Inside. Regularly exposed to the risk of blood-borne disease. May be exposed to/occasionally exposed to unpleasant patient elements, i.e., accidents, injuries, and illnesses. Subjected to varying and unpredictable situations; emergencies and crisis situations. Occasionally subjected to irregular hours/shifts.
Organizational Expectations
- Perform and score out of center sleep studies on day shift.
- Score sleep studies on day shift from previous night sleep studies
- Perform MSLT on day shift.
- Perform overnight oximetry
- Show patient how to use device
- Download device
- Submit report to ordering physician
- Perform and score out of center sleep studies on day shift.
- Score sleep studies on day shift from previous night sleep studies
- Perform MSLT on day shift.
- Perform overnight oximetry
- Show patient how to use device
- Download device
- Submit report to ordering physician
Required Education: Current enrolment in AASM A-Step Program
Required Licenses and/or Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS)
Functional Demands
Population(s) served: Pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
Physical Demands
Lifting: Occasional-Maximum of 40 lbs. from floor to waist height, 3 x day. Frequent-None.
Carry: Up to 5 lbs, 300 ft 10 X day
Fine Motor: High degree required patient hook-up and computer use
Computer: Up to 8 hours per day on average
Standing: Up to 1 hours at one time and 3 hours in one day
Sitting: Up to 1 hour at one time and 9 hours in one day
Kneeling: Up to 1 minute at one time and 15 minutes in one day
Crawling: None
Stooping: Up to 1 minutes at one time and 15 minutes in one day
Driving: None
Environmental conditions
Location: Inside. Regularly exposed to the risk of blood-borne disease. May be exposed to/occasionally exposed to unpleasant patient elements, i.e., accidents, injuries, and illnesses. Subjected to varying and unpredictable situations; emergencies and crisis situations. Occasionally subjected to irregular hours/shifts.
Organizational Expectations
- Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization.
- Promotes a culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention.
- Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet environment.
- Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in related scope-of-practice or job role.
- Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities.
- Maintains compliance with organization’s policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards.
- Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential information.
- Demonstrates excellent customer service through their attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in The Gritman Way.
