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This Course provides you with intensive training for approximately 2.5 months, allowing a “newcomer” to enhance the level of preparation for the National Board Examination.  It pays special attention to the appropriate behavioral, medical and legal ways of dealing with emergency situations, as well as steps to insure patient’s safety. A special part of the Course is devoted to the prevention of health problems in sleep technicians themselves as a “shift worker”, ways to stay alert during the night shift, and other adaptive techniques.

The Course includes a clinical component whereby students also have the opportunity to be involved in actual patient evaluations, preparations, and polysomnographic data collection. Also it is specifically designed to help those who do not have any previous experience in the medical field, and to accommodate those who are presently working fulltime at another job.

The Participants of this Course are also trained in social and interpersonal skills that are essential in interacting with patients and their families during testing.

Sleep Technologist have to have certain PERSONALITY skills such as: be extremely accurate, be honest and warm with people, and be able to work independently.

Sleep Technologist will be trained to have certain BIOLOGICAL characteristics: - improve stress management, ability to work during the night, to stay alert during dark hours but to react quickly and calmly in the emergency situations.

This Polysomnography Course is ffered twice year: Fall semester and Spring semester.

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