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About the Role

The Sleep Technologist performs various sleep disorder tests, including setup and performance of nocturnal polysomnograms (NPSGs) for research and clinical purposes across all age groups. This role may involve functioning as a nighttime lead, training technicians, and ensuring lab operations. The individual documents observations such as sleep stages and clinical events, procedure changes, and significant events to aid in scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results. Demonstrates knowledge of polysomnography, MSLT, MWT, oximetry, CPAP/BPAP studies, and basic Sleep Medicine, with the ability to recognize cardiac arrhythmia.

Responsibilities

Gathers and analyzes patient information, including reviewing history, physical information, medications, and study protocols.
Communicates with the Medical Director as necessary.
Checks voice mail upon arrival to the lab.
Completes and verifies documentation.
Assists in explaining procedures, orienting patients to the sleep center, and obtaining informed consent for research studies.
Attempts to locate no-shows and fill unexpected openings using the Stand-By Waiting List.
Prepares and calibrates equipment to ensure proper functioning and makes adjustments as needed.
Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards and protocols.
Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and makes adjustments as necessary.
Follows procedural protocols for diagnostic polysomnography (NPSG), MSLT, MWT, PAP and oxygen titration.
Follows “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values.
Performs polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure artifact-free signals and makes adjustments.
Documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events.
Implements appropriate interventions, including actions for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure and oxygen administration.
Follows “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process.
Demonstrates knowledge and skills for age-specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Recognizes sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
Recognizes clinical events such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, and arousals as per professionally accepted guidelines.
Trains new polysomnographic technicians and performs staff education.
Assures implementation of standards of practice for overnight sleep studies.
Performs/assists in studies as needed based on staffing issues.
Reports status of supplies and equipment maintenance to the daytime supervisor.
Reports concerns and issues regarding night time staff/lab operations to management.
Complies with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and standards regarding safety and infection control, and Rules of Ethics and Conduct Guidelines.
Performs routine equipment care and maintenance and inventory evaluation.
Maintains current CPR/BCLS certification.
Obtains and maintains CITI certification.
Demonstrates effective written and spoken communication skills.
Demonstrates appropriate social skills.
Demonstrates ability to follow direction.
Responds to study participant’s procedural-related inquiries by providing appropriate information.

Requirements

Must be a college graduate (2 or 4 year program; major in Sleep Medicine preferred but not required).
5 years of experience associated with a state licensed and/or a nationally accredited educational facility or equivalent experience and documented proficiency at all competencies required of a Polysomnographic Technician.
RPSGT Issuing Agency: Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists.
Other than CPR/BLS, Certification - or eligibility for certification - by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists, as a Registered Polysomnographic Technician, is preferred but not required.

Skills

Polysomnography
Multiple Sleep Latency Tests (MSLT)
Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing (MWT)
Oximetry
Administration of supplemental O2
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP and/or BPAP) studies
Basics of Sleep Medicine
Recognizes cardiac arrhythmia
Equipment calibration
Electrode and sensor application
Physiologic calibration
Data acquisition
Patient safety interventions
Therapeutic intervention
Age-specific care
Sleep/wake stage recognition
Clinical event recognition
Training
Staff education
Equipment care and maintenance
Inventory evaluation
Written communication
Spoken communication
Social skills
Ability to follow direction

Location

New York City

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5 years of experience

Education Level

College graduate (2 or 4 year program)

Salary/Compensations

$44.94 - $47.86 Hourly

About the Company

The Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.
Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment.
The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers.
We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology.
U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

Equal Opportunity

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws.
We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve feel respected and supported.
Our goal is to create a healthcare and learning institution that actively works to remove barriers, address challenges, and promote fairness in all aspects of our organization.