Polysomnographer

It's more than a career, it's a calling

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. 

A polysomnographer is an allied health professional who performs overnight sleep assessments used to diagnose various sleep disorders. A direct patient care position, the SSM Health polysomnographer will attach various electrodes used to record the patient's brain activity and will then monitor the patient throughout the night. The ideal candidate must be comfortable with technology and learning new skills. Registered Tech preferred but not required. Preference for candidates who have completed the ASTEP program.

• Department: Sleep
• Schedule: No set schedule, no guarantee of shifts or hours. Will be night shift when working. Prefer a candidate who can work 2-3 shifts every six weeks and at minimum 1 shift within a six-month period.

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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 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.

• Collects, analyzes and integrates 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

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

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

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