Job Summary
Polysomnographer providing specialized sleep diagnostic services for adolescent, adult, pediatric, and geriatric patients. The role includes sleep studies, respiratory monitoring, patient education, equipment operation, and accurate documentation. The assignment is scheduled for day shifts and requires experience with polysomnography and respiratory care.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shifts, 10 hours per shift, 40 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 1 year of experience.
- Respiratory Care Practitioners License.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT), Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT), Sleep Disorders Specialist (SDS), RPSGT, or RRT with SDS certification.
- Compact license in hand at submission.
- Charting system experience.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Community healthcare facility experience.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care for adolescents, adults, pediatrics, and geriatric patients.
- Typical patient ratios are 1:2 for adults and 1:1 for pediatric patients.
- The unit includes six rooms.
- Responsibilities may include baseline sleep polysomnography, adult and pediatric Multiple Sleep Latency Tests (MSLT), Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP), electrocardiography (ECG), electroencephalography (EEG), end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring, oxygen saturation monitoring, oxygen administration, patient education, respiratory event assessment, and polysomnography (PSG) scoring.
- Experience with sleep studies, arousal assessment, adaptive servo-ventilation (ASV), cardiac abnormalities, Cheyne-Stokes breathing, complex sleep apnea, full-face and nasal masks, home sleep testing, infection control, periodic breathing, periodic limb movement studies, respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP), seizure studies, sleep staging, transient arousals, and variable positive airway pressure (VPAP) is required.
- Orientation includes 40 hours.
- Special equipment includes Alice sleep-study software and ResMed continuous positive airway pressure units.
- Weekend coverage is required.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
