SLEEP LAB TECH

Position Title: Sleep Technician

Department: RT/Sleep

Supervisor’s Title: Medical Director, Clinical Coordinator/RRT

I Position Summary: A sleep technician performs comprehensive sleep testing and

analysis, and associated interventions under the general supervision of a sleep technologist

and/or the medical director or designee.

II. Principal Functions And Responsibilities

• Review the patient’s history and verify the medical order.
• Follow sleep center protocols related to the sleep study.
• When patient arrives, verify identification, collect documents and obtain consent for the study.
• Explain the procedure and orient the patient for either in center or out of center sleep testing.
• Select appropriate equipment and calibrate for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
• Perform routine positive airway pressure (PAP) interface fitting and desentization.
  
  

III. Procedures

• Follow procedural protocols (such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP and oxygen titration, etc.) to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make required adjustments.
• Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values (such as body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.).
• Perform data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identify, correct and document artifact.
• Document 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.
• Implement appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.).
• Follow “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process (e.g. repeat the physiological and instrument calibrations and instruct the patient on completing questionnaires, checking for completeness, etc.).
• Assist with scoring sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
• Assist with scoring clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) utilizing AASM standards.
• Assist with the generation of accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event 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.
  
  

Qualifications

IV. Position Qualifications/Requirement:

Successful completion of a sleep technology program, associated with a state licensed and/or a

nationally accredited educational facility. BLS

OR

A minimum of six months of experience as a sleep trainee with documented proficiency in all

required competencies or a RRT (Registered Respiratory Therapist) with six months in lab or

CRT (Certified Respiratory Therapist) with one-year Full-Time in lab experience. Or RRT-SDS,

RRT-RPSGT, CRT-RPSGT.

OR

Holds a Registered Polysomnographic Technician (RPSGT) Certified Polysomnographic

Technician (CPSGT) credential or equivalent. Or RRT-SDS

Working conditions: exposure to patient care environment

Physical: Sitting, standing, walking, lifting