Sleep technician Jobs in Fayetteville, NC

Currently recruiting an Sleep Medicine Physician (Somnologist) to provide care to active duty military members and their families at the Intrepid Spirit Center, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. The Sleep Medicine Physician (Somnologist) is a full-time position, 80 hours per two weeks, 8 or 10 hour day shifts, Mon. - Fri., between 6 : 00 AM to 6 : 00 PM. Full benefits, including 22 days paid vacation / sick leave and 11 paid Federal holidays.

DUTIES OF THE SLEEP MEDICINE PHYSICIAN (SOMNOLOGIST) :

• Serve as a somnologist in Sleep Medicine responsible for the examination, diagnosis and treatment of the full range of outpatients seen in the clinic. The presence of multiple chronic conditions and a wide range of sleep and breathing disorders and diseases, complicated diagnoses and treatments, requires the training and experience of a board-certified specialistmin Sleep Medicine.
• Performs a wide range of medical duties covering all aspects of disorders involving Sleep Medicine that is of moderate to severe complexity.
• Examine patients, orders, interprets, and evaluates the full range of tests when indicated in patients when diseases or pain syndromes are affecting sleep.
• Understand and utilize scoring standards as recommended by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
• Make diagnoses and prescribes appropriate treatments to include continuous positive airway pressure, bi-level airway pressure, oxygen, drugs or behavioral modalities.
• Make referrals to the appropriate clinics. Communicates with patients, referring physicians and the appropriate primary care manager for management of disorders outside the specialty of Sleep Medicine.
• Provide prescription renewal and telephone consultative services. Provide recommendations or definitive evaluation for sleep medicine and breathing related disorders in the referral region through phone consultation, telemedicine, and authorization and evaluation of air evacuation patients as appropriate. Provide episodic care to clinic patients on a walk-in basis.
• Teach and provide consultation to other health care providers nurse practitioners, physician s assistants, medical students, interns, residents, and fellows).
• Provide chart, polysomnography, and multiple sleep latency testing review for quality assurance purposes in the area of Sleep Medicine as requested.
• Examine and conduct thorough studies of presenting patients utilizing and ordering evaluation assets including electroencephalography, Magnetic-encephalography (MEG), olfactory testing, and neuro-regenerative, neuro-imaging, vestibular, and sleep study evaluations.
• Conduct comprehensive neurological exams on patients to include cranial nerve, motor / sensory and cerebellar function.
• Interpret and report out results of polysomnograms and electroencephalograms, magnetic encephalography (MEG), olfactory testing, neuro-regenerative, and neuro-cognitive evaluations.
• Provide expert assessment and interpretation of polysomnography, multiple sleep latency, maintenance of wakefulness testing, actigraphy, and overnight oximetry.
• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in sleep medicine in collaboration with clinicians in other medical specialties on cases involving complicated and multifaceted neurological and neuropsychiatric problems.
• Oversee and educate interdisciplinary teams responsible for testing and treating patients with sleep issues, ensuring that the highest standards of professional practice and ethics are maintained.
• Make recommendations to the ISC Director for improvement of patient and family services and clinical operations related to the implementation and conduct of quality improvement strategies.
• Work in collaboration with interdisciplinary team consisting of clinic physicians and psychologists, neuroscience researchers, pharmacists, nurses, and professionals in various specialties. Continually fosters an interdisciplinary approach to care that relies on pattern recognition of physical, behavioral, social, and spiritual conditions.
• Utilize patient records, patient performance, and family interviews and counseling as they contribute essential data in the diagnostic process and appropriate patient care.
• Organizes clinical data systematically for effective retrieval for clinic and investigational requirements.
• Responsible for analyzing problems that occur in the delivery of services, collection of related data and information, and implementing solutions and follow up plans to assure that the actions were appropriate.
• Complete training to obtain knowledge and maintain competency in the following systems;MHS Genesis.
• Possess knowledge on Dragon dictation software, MHS Genesis, and Microsoft Office programs.
• Comply with regulatory, MTF, and Joint Commission quality inspection / peer review / utilization management requirements, and applicable system applications.
• Serve as physician liaison to a referral management coordination call center, in support of care allocation for clinical referrals.
• Contractor employees shall prepare all documentation to meet or exceed established MTF standards, to include, but not limited to : timeliness, accuracy, content, and signature. Contractor employees shall only use DoD approved acronyms for documentation in the patient health records. (DoDI 6025.13 and DoDM 6055.05)
• Document and close notes in MHS Genesis within three (3) business days of patient encounters.
• Respond to beneficiary messages submitted and received in the MHS Genesis secure portal systems within one (1) business day.

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