Sleep Technician Job – Orangeburg, SC

Purpose: Perform sleep studies using guidelines. Maintain sleep lab environment of care

Tasks:

• Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and sterilize sleep equipment.
• Independently perform sleep studies using established guidelines in pediatric, adult and geriatric patient populations. Examples of tests include nocturnal polysomnogram (NPSGs), titration studies for CPAP, BiPAP, ASV, AVAP and split night studies, home study tests, Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) and Maintenance of wakefulness (MWT).
• Troubleshoot, problem solve and use critical thinking to resolve issues before, during and after sleep studies.
• Maintain a clean and safe environment in the sleep lab.
• Hear, see, ambulate and communicate with patients as they arrive and depart the sleep lab.
• Communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, in the English language.

Work Content

Team member occasionally stands, stoops, kneels, crouches and crawls.

Team member frequently walks, sits, reaches with both hands and arms, climbs and balances.

Team member regularly uses both hands to finger, handle, or feel.

Team member regularly talks or hears.

Lifts Weight or Exerts Force Work Environment

Team member may occasionally lift 30 pounds.

Vision

Specific vision abilities required by this job include:

Close vision

Distance vision

Peripheral vision

Depth perception

Ability to adjust focus