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Aurora Health Care, Wisconsin’s most comprehensive not-for-profit health care provider offers a wide range of employment opportunities. We are currently seeking Polysomnographic Technicians for our new state of the art sleep centers.  These off-campus, hotel-like sleep centers provides a comforting and welcoming environment for our patients and caregivers.

At Aurora, employees are valued for finding better ways and are offered flexibility, mobility and growth. We offer competitive wages as well as a comprehensive blend of benefits designed to make life better both inside and outside of the workplace.        

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• Preparing and calibrating equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and signals.
• Selecting and applying special monitoring electrodes, bands, thermistors, and other monitoring probes to appropriate areas of the patient's body. 
• Preparing positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fittings.
• Following sleep procedures to establish and document baseline values such as body position, movements, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates.
• Assisting with scoring sleep/wake stages and with the generation of accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.
• Implementing appropriate interventions including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure and oxygen administration.
• Performing procedures and therapeutic interventions such as auto servo ventilation (SV) titrations, average volume assured pressure support (AVAPS), multiple sleep latency testing (MSLT), maintenance of wakefulness testing (MWT).
• Performing polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to recognize and eliminate all artifacts observed during the test. 
• Following wake procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process e.g. repeat the physiological and instrument calibrations and instructs the patient on completing questionnaires.
• Setting up video and audio monitoring apparatus. 
• Scheduling and discussing the test process with patients, ensures their knowledge of the process, and answers their questions. Educates physicians and patients on sleep medicines.

Specialized Know-How and Requirements: