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Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named to the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report?s "Best Hospitals 2024-2025" rankings. When you join our team, you?ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and sophisticated medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career.

We take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing:

The Polysomnographic Technologist works under the general supervision of the medical director to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders including sleep testing, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, comprehensive patient care and direct patient education.  The Polysomnographic Technologist is credentialed in sleep technology.

• Works under direct clinical supervision of the sleep medicine physician to prepare sleep studies, support patients with positive airway pressure related issues, and conduct polysomnogram scoring.
• Oversees home sleep study logistics. Sets up and scores home sleep testing devices.
• Collects, analyzes and integrates patient information in order to identify and meet the patient-specific needs.
• Determines final testing parameters/procedures in conjunction with the ordering physician or clinical director and laboratory protocols.
• Explains procedures and orients the patient for sleep testing.
• Selects appropriate equipment and calibrates for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments, if necessary; applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
• Performs data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free.  Identifies, corrects and documents artifacts.  Documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Performs patient education and instruction appropriate for sleep testing.
• Measure and accurately apply electrodes in a timely manner, according to the 10-20 international system.  Ensure that electrode impedance meets laboratory standards.
• Gather pertinent information from patient, patient?s record, nurses, physicians, and family members;  Document skull defects and alterations of electrode placement.
• Perform routine EEG procedures in the lab
• Introduce patients to routine, neurophysiologic testing situations and prepare patient for the testing procedure, addressing questions and concerns and attending to patient?s comfort and safety during the procedures.
• Maintain competency of basic infection control standards relating to patient and equipment including electrodes.
• Keep equipment clean and in proper working order. Ensure the scheduled maintenance of equipment is performed.  Ability to troubleshoot equipment problems and repair them or report to supervisor promptly.

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

One (1) plus years? experience in PSG (Polysomnographic Technologist) and home sleep study scoring.

Education Requirements:

High School Diploma/GED.

Certifications/Licenses Requirements:

EEG (Electroencephalogram Technologist) Certification by ABRET.

Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (PSG) CA License by BRPT and/or Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner by Respiratory Care Board of California.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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