Job Description

Full Time, Part Time, or PRN RPSGT needed for our Fishkill, NY location #urgentlyhiring

Up to a 15k sign on bonus! for FT hires only

MedBridge Healthcare is seeking an experienced RPSGT (Technologist) or RT/CRT, to work 3-4 night per week from 8pm-6am . Competitive hourly rates available depending on experience, with 2:1 ratio.

MedBridge is a leading provider of sleep laboratory management services and sleep therapy. MedBridge partners with hospitals and physician practices to offer comprehensive fully-integrated services for patient identification, testing, diagnosis, treatment and long-term care management of patients with sleep disorders.

Responsibilities will include:

• Gather and Analyze Patient Information
• 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 director 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.
• Verify patient video recording(s) is operating properly per laboratory standard protocol
• 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 (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), 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, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates, etc.)
• Perform Polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact- free and make adjustments, if necessary.
• Document observations every 20 minutes on recording and in technical comments to include: sleep stage, clinical events, position changes, pressure changes, SaO2 values, heart rate, and respiratory rate, changes in procedure, and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.

Job Requirements:

• High school diploma required
• Completion of an accredited Polysomnography program required
• RPSGT and/or CRT/RT license(s) also preferred
• Certification by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist "RPSGT"
• Current BCLS certification required
• Proof of immunizations required

Pay range 40 and up DOE

Physical Demands of the Job:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

1. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit, talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus.

2. The employee is required to use his/her hands to operate office equipment.

3. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

EQUAL   EMPLOYMENT   OPPORTUNITY  /   AFFIRMATIVE   ACTION   EMPLOYER : MedBridge Healthcare LLC, and its subsidiaries, are dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran's status, or any other factor that is a prohibited consideration under applicable law.

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