Scott Wellens
Rockledge,Fl
Summary
Motivated, results driven professional with strong technical, analytical, financial and leadership skillset. Looking to apply my experience and skills to helping customers in a variety of work environments.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Daytime Polysomnographic Technologist
Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center
07.2022 - Current
- Instruct patients on proper use of home sleep apnea tests (Watchpat one, Alice night one) in 1:1 and classroom setting.
- Score home sleep apnea tests and generate data and interpretation report for sleep doctors.
- Review and revise overnight sleep studies assuring accurate scoring and report generation.
- Using values from report, create impressions and recommendations for sleep doctors to review and edit.
- Perform Multiple Sleep Latency Tests and any other daytime test (acquisition, scoring and report generation) in accordance to AASM and sleep center guidelines.
- Cleaning and disinfection of sleep study equipment.
- Ensure that patient’s sleep study reports and questionnaires are scanned into EMR and sent to ordering physicians.
- Enter all sleep study and patient information into sleep center patient database.
- Liaise with ordering physicians practices assuring all processes essential to patient care are met.
- Review all patient sleep study orders and supporting office visit notes assuring proper guidelines are met for proceeding with the sleep test.
- Call patients to discuss sleep study results.
- Troubleshoot sleep hardware and software issues that affect the daily operation and performing of sleep studies.
- Schedule patient’s sleep studies when needed using hospital scheduling software.
Manager of Operations
Nyu Langone Health-Long Island (Formerly Winthrop University Hospital)
02.2011 - 01.2022
- Took a 8 bed Sleep Lab running 5 days a week and expanded it to a 10 bed Lab running 7 days a week Maintained a High Profit margin (8-10 Million Dollars)
- Decreased Patient no-show rate
- Developed and Maintained all Sleep Lab Policies and Protocols keeping them in line with National and Hospital level policies
- Maintained Sleep Lab adherence to Department of Health and Joint Commission Standards Kept Sleep Lab running at high level while maintaining set budget
- In charge of Interviewing and hiring staff
- Ensured staff maintained all needed credentials, continuous learning, and competencies Performed yearly staff reviews, implementing performance improvement plans when needed Implemented Staff Counseling and Written Disciplinary actions utilizing a Just Culture model
- Created and implemented a Quality Improvement program for lab and Presented QI reports to administration Acted as Liaison between hospital administration and staff
- Held monthly staff meetings to discuss all relevant topics involving Sleep Lab and pass along important administration level information
Supervisor of Sleep Disorders Center
Winthrop University Hospital (Becomes NYU Langone Health-Long Island)
06.2003 - 02.2011
- Performed Competencies and yearly Sleep Tech evaluations
- Performed troubleshooting on all clinical equipment Scored all Sleep Studies to AASM standards
- Ran Daytime PSG, CPAP, Split, MSLT and MWT Sleep Studies Counseled and Disciplined Staff as per Assistant Directors directive
Sleep Scorer
Clinilabs, Inc
10.2000 - 05.2009
- Scored drug research sleep studies utilizing established sleep scoring rules.
- Scored sleep staging, respiratory events, arousals and REM density.
- Scored sleep studies utilizing different formats including paper Polysomnographs, EDF files on cd’s and remote servers.
- Attended phone meetings with scoring team to go over scoring protocols and review scoring to provide quality assurance and better align our scoring to that of gold standard.
- Met all scoring deadlines established by our clients and Clinilabs, inc.
Polysomnographic Technologist
Winthrop University Hospital
04.1998 - 06.2003
- Reviewed Patient charts, prior to patient arrival, corroborating Doctor's order and instructions for study Set up work area in patient room for application of sensors
- Applied electrodes and sensors on patient to AASM and Lab standards
- Explained process to patient
- Acquired overnight Polysomnography on patients following lab protocols (PSG, CPAP, Split-Night Studies)
- Acquired daytime Polysomnography following lab protocols (Daytime PSG, Daytime CPAP, Daytime Split-Night, MSLT, MWT Studies)
- As a Tech, was responsible for monitoring all Polysomnographic channels being recorded, troubleshooting any artifact by making changes at electrode site or from software
- Responsible for making independent clinical decisions such as applying CPAP, Oxygen or in emergencies contacting Medical staff or EMT's
- Titrated all CPAP and Split studies
- Alerted Supervisor, Manager or Medical Provider to any situations requiring their input or knowledge
- Performed all end of study procedures, prepared clinical notes for study, removed and cleaned all electrodes and sensors Provided patients with clear expectation regarding sleep study results, follow up doctor visits and any instructions for post study
Education
B.A. - Psychology
City University of New York, Queens College
Queens, NY06.1992
No Degree - Industrial and Operations Engineering, Kinesiology
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MichiganSkills
- Dedicated
- Detail oriented
- Results driven
- Technical proficiency
- Analysis skills
- Computer skills
- Team Player
- Patient care
- Microsoft word
- Microsoft excel
- Quality assurance
Certification
NYS Polysomnographic Technologist License (000621), Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT: # 3976), BLS
Timeline
Daytime Polysomnographic Technologist
Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center
07.2022 - Current
Manager of Operations
Nyu Langone Health-Long Island (Formerly Winthrop University Hospital)
02.2011 - 01.2022
Supervisor of Sleep Disorders Center
Winthrop University Hospital (Becomes NYU Langone Health-Long Island)
06.2003 - 02.2011
Sleep Scorer
Clinilabs, Inc
10.2000 - 05.2009
Polysomnographic Technologist
Winthrop University Hospital
04.1998 - 06.2003
B.A. - Psychology
City University of New York, Queens College
No Degree - Industrial and Operations Engineering, Kinesiology
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor