Research Coordinator/ Sleep Technician (EVERGREEN)

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma required

• CPR Certification required

• Maintained RPSGT certification required

• Prepare and calibrate equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning.

• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.

• Perform appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals

• Follow procedural protocols such as Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT), parasomnia studies, insomnia, etc. and to ensure collection of appropriate data.

• Follow “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values such as bodies positions, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates.

• Perform polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free. Identify and report signal abnormalities.

• Document routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure and significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.

• Score sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.

• Score clinical events such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements and Arousals using center specific protocols.

• Generate accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.

• Maintain current CPR or BCLS certification.

• Comply with the BRPT Standards of Conduct.

Responsibilities:

• Promote safety and confidentiality of research participants at all times

• Adhere to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), and infection control procedures

• Plan and coordinate the initiation of research study protocol, and the implementation of operating policies and procedures

• Plan, implement and maintain data collection and analysis systems in support of research protocol; may coordinate the collection and analysis of research data

• Recruit, instruct and coordinate research subjects and/or volunteers, as appropriate to specific study objectives and work scope

• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of technical support staff specifically engaged in the carrying out of research/clinical protocol, as appropriate to the position; may perform aspects of research protocol, as required, in accordance with specified program objectives

• Organize and facilitate meetings, conferences, and other events associated with research activities; may perform and/or coordinate outreach activities, as appropriate to research objectives

• Document all correspondence and communication pertinent to the research

• Interact and communicate effectively with Principal Investigator, other site personnel, research participants, The Geneva Foundation, and the funding organization