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    Mart Joshua Lopez completed a senior project exploring the career of a Polysomnographic Technician through job shadowing. He shadowed Justin Orbistondo of Pacific Sleep Tech to gain first-hand experience in the field. Through this experience, Lopez learned about sleep study procedures, equipment used like the Alice 6 instrumentation, and analyzing sleep data. He created a presentation, information packet, and photos to showcase what he learned. Job shadowing proved an effective method of career exploration for Lopez, helping him better understand the day-to-day responsibilities of being a Polysomnographic Technician.

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    Mart Joshua Lopez completed a senior project exploring the career of a Polysomnographic Technician through job shadowing. He shadowed Justin Orbistondo of Pacific Sleep Tech to gain first-hand experience in the field. Through this experience, Lopez learned about sleep study procedures, equipment used like the Alice 6 instrumentation, and analyzing sleep data. He created a presentation, information packet, and photos to showcase what he learned. Job shadowing proved an effective method of career exploration for Lopez, helping him better understand the day-to-day responsibilities of being a Polysomnographic Technician.

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    Mart Joshua Lopez completed a senior project exploring the career of a Polysomnographic Technician through job shadowing. He shadowed Justin Orbistondo of Pacific Sleep Tech to gain first-hand experience in the field. Through this experience, Lopez learned about sleep study procedures, equipment used like the Alice 6 instrumentation, and analyzing sleep data. He created a presentation, information packet, and photos to showcase what he learned. Job shadowing proved an effective method of career exploration for Lopez, helping him better understand the day-to-day responsibilities of being a Polysomnographic Technician.

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    Mart Joshua Lopez completed a senior project exploring the career of a Polysomnographic Technician through job shadowing. He shadowed Justin Orbistondo of Pacific Sleep Tech to gain first-hand experience in the field. Through this experience, Lopez learned about sleep study procedures, equipment used like the Alice 6 instrumentation, and analyzing sleep data. He created a presentation, information packet, and photos to showcase what he learned. Job shadowing proved an effective method of career exploration for Lopez, helping him better understand the day-to-day responsibilities of being a Polysomnographic Technician.

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    Mart Joshua Lopez 2014
    Dr. Amy Perruso
    Justin Orbistondo, Pacic Sleep Tech
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    Signicance of Career Exploration
    What is the effectiveness and impact of career exploration?
    By job shadowing a Polysomnographic Technician, will give me better insight to of the career because I'll see it rst hand.
    My goal is to explore my career options through job shadowing a seasoned professional in the eld
    In order to achieve my goal, I needed to understand the basis of career exploration
    and research effective methods. A well known method of career exploration, besides
    research, is rst hand job shadowing. Since then, I networked with a local professional
    in the eld of Polysomnography and scheduled job shadowing sessions that went into
    late hours and even overnight.
    I created a powerpoint presentation, a packet of
    information, and shared photos.
    Powerpoint presentation - used to effectively showcase my project in a
    visually pleasing way for my audience to follow
    Packet of information - Used to show what I learned and what others must
    learn in order to be a professional in Polysomnography
    Photos - allowed my audience to understand the settings I was working in
    +
    Effectiveness of Career
    Exploration Programs (+
    Job Shadowing)
    Joshua Lopez
    Senior
    Mililani High School

    +
    What is Career Exploration?
    ! Career Exploration is the process of...
    1. learning about yourself and the world of work,
    2. identifying and exploring potentially satisfying
    occupations,
    3. and developing an effective strategy to realize
    your goals.
    +
    Significance of Career Exploration
    ! In 1937, only 15 percent of high school students pursued a
    higher education which were upper-income families
    ! Nearly 60% of all jobs in the U.S. require a college degree
    ! It helps the student have his/her own general direction
    +
    Uncertainty can lead to wasted
    time, money, and effort
    ! Delays in a college education can often be
    caused by changing majors
    ! 50-70% of college students will change
    majors at least THREE times before
    graduating
    ! Changing classes to fit requirements

    +
    Uncertainty can lead to wasted
    time, money, and effort
    The later a student makes a change, the
    more costly it is in tuition and time,
    Sharon Wiatt Jones, a former career
    counselor at the University of North
    Carolina at Chapel Hill and the co-author
    of The Parents Crash Course in Career
    Planning: Helping your College Student
    Succeed
    +
    Uncertainty can lead to wasted
    time, money, and effort
    ! Changing majors losing economic
    feasibility
    ! From 2002-03 to 2012-13, published
    tuition and fees at public four-year
    institutions rose at an average rate of
    5.2% per year beyond inflation
    +
    What can simple forms of Career
    Exploration do?
    ! Give yourself a sense of direction
    ! Save you time and money
    ! Allows yourself to be more educated and
    aware
    +
    Testing the Effectiveness of Job
    Shadowing as a Form of
    Career Exploration
    Joshua Lopez
    Polysomnographic
    Technologist
    +
    Sleep Study
    ! Sleep studies are tests that measure
    how well you sleep and how well your
    body responds to sleep problems.
    +
    Polysomnography
    ! Polysomnography (PSG), a type of sleep
    study, is a multi-parametric test used in the
    study of sleep and as a diagnostic tool in
    sleep medicine.
    ! Brain (EEG) activity , eye movements
    (EOG), muscle activity or skeletal muscle
    activation (EMG) and heart rhythm (ECG)
    during sleep.
    +
    What did I know
    before entering the
    job shadow?
    +
    On the job:
    ! Shifts are typically overnight
    ! You must be dressed in full scrubs
    ! Be ready with a good attitude
    +
    Procedures
    1. Review incoming patients medical
    description (age, issues, last time
    sleep study was done)
    2. We patient arrives, lead them into
    their designated room, allow them to
    get comfortable and change into
    comfortable clothing
    +
    Procedures
    3. Allow them to complete pre-study
    questionnaire
    4. When patient is changing, organize
    electrode wires, cleaning paste,
    conducting paste, and gauze
    5. When patient has changed, put on
    gloves and begin placing electrodes
    onto patient starting from the legs up
    +
    +
    6. After all electrodes have been placed,
    plug in all wires to Alice 6 instrumentation
    7. Organize all wires in a neat fashion and
    tape them together and debrief patient
    +
    +
    Things to know
    ! 10/20 system for head measurements
    ! Understanding the stages of sleep
    ! Analyzing sleep data
    +
    10/20 System
    +
    Stages of Sleep
    +
    Analyzing Sleep Data
    +
    How Job Shadowing Has Helped
    ! Allowed me to understand the ins and outs
    of the job
    ! Provides a hands on experience
    ! Hands on = deeper connection and
    understand rather just internet sources

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