Director Of Sleep Lab Service

Job Title: Director of Sleep Lab ServicesReports To: Chief Nursing OfficerPosition Description:The Director of Sleep Lab provides administrative, technical, operational, and quality oversight for Johnson Regional Medical Center’s Sleep Laboratory. The Director is responsible for daily operations, personnel management, scheduling, competency validation, regulatory compliance, accreditation readiness, patient safety, equipment management, quality improvement, and the delivery of technically accurate sleep-testing services.
The Director must hold and maintain the Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) credential through the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists.
Essential Duties and

Responsibilities:
Administrative and Operational LeadershipDirects the daily administrative and technical operations of the Sleep Laboratory.
Develops and maintains departmental goals, policies, procedures, staffing plans, workflows, and performance standards.
Ensures adequate staffing and appropriately qualified personnel for scheduled in-laboratory and home sleep testing services.
Prepares staff schedules, manages timekeeping, monitors attendance, and ensures appropriate coverage for nighttime operations.
Participates in recruitment, interviewing, selection, onboarding, orientation, supervision, evaluation, counseling, and professional development of sleep-laboratory personnel.
Maintains personnel files containing current licenses, certifications, competency records, continuing education, CPR credentials, and other required documentation.
Develops and monitors the departmental operating and capital budgets.
Monitors productivity, testing volume, referral patterns, cancellations, no-shows, overtime, supply utilization, reimbursement trends, and cost per study.
Coordinates the acquisition, maintenance, repair, replacement, and calibration of sleep-testing equipment.
Maintains vendor relationships and ensures service agreements support safe and uninterrupted operations.
Collaborates with hospital leadership, medical staff, respiratory therapy, nursing, information technology, health information management, revenue cycle, quality, compliance, infection prevention, and biomedical services.
Participates in strategic planning and community outreach activities designed to improve access to sleep-medicine services.
Technical OversightEnsure sleep studies are conducted according to physician orders, approved protocols, manufacturer instructions, payer requirements, and recognized professional standards.
Maintains competency in polysomnography and provides technical guidance to staff performing:Diagnostic polysomnographyPositive airway pressure titration; Split-night studies;Multiple Sleep Latency Testing; Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing; Home Sleep Apnea TestingPediatric testing, when offered and approved; Supplemental oxygen administration pursuant to an authorized order; CPAP, bilevel PAP, and other noninvasive positive-pressure interventions within approved protocols; Electroencephalographic,electrooculographic, electromyographic, respiratory, cardiac, oxygen saturation, body-position, and video monitoring.
Ensures proper electrode and sensor application, physiologic signal acquisition, impedance verification, calibration, documentation, artifact correction, and equipment troubleshooting.
Establishes and monitors technical standards for acquisition, scoring, report preparation, and secure transfer of sleep-study data.
Ensures studies are scored according to the current applicable AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events and facility-approved protocols.
Conducts or coordinates inter-scorer reliability reviews and addresses identified variations.
Ensures staff recognize and respond appropriately to urgent clinical events, including significant hypoxemia, respiratory distress, cardiac dysrhythmias, seizure activity, falls, chest pain, altered mental status, and other medical emergencies.
Ensures abnormal or critical findings are escalated promptly under approved notification procedures.
Ensures testing equipment is maintained, calibrated, cleaned, disinfected, and functionally checked according to policy and manufacturer instructions.
Performs sleep studies and scoring when necessary to maintain operations, validate competency, or provide staffing coverage.
Medical Director CollaborationWorks collaboratively with the JRMC-appointed Sleep Lab Medical Director.
Assists the Medical Director with development and periodic review of clinical protocols, patient-acceptance criteria, emergency procedures, quality measures, and testing standards.
Ensures studies are available for review and interpretation by appropriately credentialed physicians.
Refers medical questions, requests for changes in therapy, unexpected clinical findings, and matter requiring physician judgment to the Medical Director or responsible treating provider.
Supports medical staff credentialing and privileging processes related to sleep‑study interpretation.
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