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Sleep Technologist 

Sleep Technologist 

Sleep Technologist

PATIENT CARE SETTINGS

Acute care/hospitals
Independent sleep labs
Skilled nursing facility
Private home setting

PATIENT PREPARATION

Hook up - full head
Patient CPAP Trials
Patient IPAP Trials
Patient pre-study calibration
Hook up - seizure
Hook up - Standard 10-20

SLEEP STUDIES & CLINICAL SKILLS

Full mask fitting
Nasal mask fitting
Nasal ventilation
Esophageal pressure tube insertion
Oxygen set up - nasal cannula
Oxygen set up - mask
Oxygen set up - trach
Oxygen titration
Placement of body electrodes
Scoring
ECGs
ECG rhythms
Oxygen saturation monitoring
Staging sleep, respirations, PLMs
Audio video monitoring
EEGs
EEG rhythms
Endotracheal suctioning
Nasotracheal suctioning
Multiple sleep latency test
Night terror study
Portable sleep study at home
Portable sleep study in hospital
REM behavioral disorder precautions
Research studies
Seizure study
Sleep logs
Study of sleep walking
Wake study

EQUIPMENT & REPORTING

Troubleshooting all equipment (e.g. leak levels pressure release, humidification, etc.)
Alice 3
Alice 4
Biological
Digitrace
Grass Digital Systems
Medgraphics Lab
Medgraphics P series
Nicolet
Nihon Koden Digital
Sandman
Sensormedics
Sullivan CPAP
Sullivan VPAP
Teca
Calculations - AHI
Calculations - RDI
Calculations - TST
Technologist observation and summary
Histograms, hypnogram

SYSTEMS

100% digital
Paper (Graph)
Windows-based software
DOS-based software

PHARMACOLOGY

Bronchodilators (inhaled)
D-Nase (pulmozine)
Dopamine
Morphine sulfate
Pavulon
Pentamidine (NebuPent)
Ribaviran (Virazole)
Tobramycin

SAFETY & INFECTION CONTROL

Verifying patient identity prior to treatment
National patient safety goals
Effective communication with patients
Effective interdisciplinary communication with peers, providers, etc.
Universal precautions
Contact precautions
Droplet precautions
COVID-19 precautions
High risk for falls
Bleeding precautions
Aspiration precautions
Suicide precautions
Rapid response system
Emergency codes

AGE SPECIFIC CARE

Infant (birth to 1 year)
Toddler (ages 1-3 years)
Preschooler (ages 4-5 years)
Childhood (ages 6-12 years)
Adolescent (ages 13-21 years)
Young adults (ages 22-39 years)
Adults (ages 40-64)
Older adults (ages 65-79 years)

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