Sleep Lab Technologist

at  SickKids

ABOUT SICKKIDS

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built – nor could it be maintained – without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.
When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Sleep Technologists at Sickkids perform polysomnographic testing and therapeutic interventions under the supervision of the sleep lab director in the Sleep laboratory.

• Conduct sleep studies on patients aged 0-18, providing age specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of neonatal, pediatric, and adolescent patients.
• Perform Multiple Sleep Latency Tests (MSLT).
• Perform routine positive airway pressure (PAP) interface fitting and desensitization.
• Perform routine oxygen titrations.
• Use TcCO2 and EtCO2 technology to determine hypoventilation.
• Capillary blood gas sampling as necessary.
• Collect, analyze and integrate patient information in order to identify and meet the patient-specific needs (physical/mental limitations, current emotional/physiological status regarding the testing procedure, pertinent medical/social history).
• Implement appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.)
• Monitor data acquisition while monitoring study signal quality to ensure data is artifact-free and identifying, correcting and documenting artifact.
• Document routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, behavioural changes, and other significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of PSG
• Score sleep/wake stages as per AASM rules.
• Score clinical events (eg. respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) as per AASM rules.
• Data download of home therapy and interpretation.
• Clean and disinfect equipment.