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Medical Instrument Technician (Polysomnography)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 49 days ago
On-site Springfield, MO $62K – $80K Apply by Aug 7, 2026 Medical Instrument Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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The Medical Instrument Technician (Polysomnography) is in the Specialty Care Service of the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This position is physically located at the Gene Taylor Veterans' Outpatient Clinic in Springfield, Missouri.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Medical Instrument Technician (Polysomnography) duties include but are not limited to: Prepare patients and calibrate sleep equipment and physiological calibrations on patients.
- →Explain pre-testing, testing, and post-testing procedures to the patient.
- →Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and make adjustments.
- →Monitor patient safety parameters and physiological data in the sleep lab for all emergencies.
- →Recognize emergent situations, provide competent care, CPR, and notifying the Rapid Response / Code Blue teams in these events.
- →Monitor and interpret all montage signals including EEG, EOG, EKG, EMG, respiratory channels, snore channel, and SPO2 channel.
- →Utilize the 10-20 neurological measuring system to ensure accurate EEG electrode placement and recording procedures.
- →Initiate and titrate CPAP, BiPAP, and ASV therapy for patients with complex sleep-disordered breathing.
- →Perform split-night sleep studies requiring rapid assessment and adjustment of PAP therapy.
- →Monitor and troubleshoot of advanced PAP modalities including adaptive servo-ventilation and volume-assured pressure support systems.
- →Identify and treat sleep related breathing disorders.
- →Responsible for proper articulation of the study details, times, respiratory rates, heart rates, cardiac arrythmias, supplemental oxygen therapy, Myoclonus, sleep breathing disorders, neurologic events, parasomnias, SPO2 readings, and Rem behavior disorders.
- →Oversee and perform difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions, to include providing training and supervision to Medical Instrument Technicians (Polysomnography) that are working in a developmental capacity.
- →Follow procedural protocols [such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, PAP, oxygen titration etc.] to ensure collection of appropriate data.
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 evaluation.
- ✓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 will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 8057f20d-50c3-44c5-acbe-2373b6f2ae7a
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