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Medical Instrument Technician - Polysomnography
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $52K – $83K Apply by Jun 10, 2026 Medical Instrument Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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The incumbent performs as a polysomnography technologist. They maintain state of theart quality in the principles, practices and procedures associated with Sleep Disorders Medicine. Performance of a variety of routine and complex sleep studies performed on VA patients at the sleep lab at the Washington DC VA Medical Center.
What You'll Do
- →Using state of the art equipment incumbent obtains polysomnograms on patients with life threatening sleep disorders.
- →Obtains multiple sleep latency tests on patients with possible narcolepsy or other disorders of excess sleepiness.
- →All testing performed requires on-line analysis by the technologist to obtain the necessary data for correct diagnosis and therapy for the patient.
- →Make decisions about therapy in the case of patients with sleep apnea who are undergoing split night studies.
- →Requires both obtaining studies that are representative and making decisions during the study if the patient is appropriate that night to undergo therapy, and determining that the therapy is optimal.
- →Assists in the education of students (medical students, polysomnography students) and residents and fellows.
- →Based on experience and knowledge the incumbent provides oxygen therapy, and or nasal CPAP and or nasal BiPAP and or nasal auto-pap therapy, determining the proper levels to be administered.
- →Able to determine the appropriate settings of BiPAP ST as well as Servopap.
- →Recognize various cardiac arrythmias and independently decides when to call for professional intervention.
- →Recognize and describe seizures and other behavior during the sleep study that may require intervention.
- →Able to utilize sophisticated equipment to obtain studies with an extended montage to allow for seizure monitoring.
- →Ability to utilize the more limited equipment that allows monitoring of respiratory parameters in sleep.
- →Maintain the guidelines on infection control for our laboratory and interfaces with manufacturers to determine appropriate specifications and with our infectious control group and SPD to insure that we are following safe and appropriate procedures.
- →Disseminate this information on a regular basis to other staff via in-service presentations and informal teaching to make sure guidelines are followed.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
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Job ID: 0993fae7-58fc-46bc-888d-d07691374de9
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