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Patient education
Helping patients understand their next step.
Explaining study findings, PAP equipment, mask options, and practical strategies that make therapy easier to understand.
Explore this workNATE COOMBS, RPSGT
Sleep medicine.
People first.
I help patients understand their therapy, mentor sleep technologists, and bring hands-on clinical experience to lab leadership.
Sioux Falls, SD & Bismarck, ND
NATE COOMBS, RPSGT
RPSGTCredentialed since 2012
CARE / EDUCATION / LEADERSHIP
14 years
Experience in sleep medicine
A-STEP
Course founder & instructor
Director
Meet the personTwo-bed sleep lab experience
behind the experience
WHERE I MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Expertise that connects
with people.
My work brings together the technical demands of sleep medicine and the everyday needs of patients, learners, and clinical teams.
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Teaching & mentoring
Turning clinical knowledge into confidence.
Building training materials, guiding hands-on learning, and supporting new sleep technologists as they develop their skills.
Explore this work03
Lab leadership
Keeping people and operations connected.
Drawing on Director and coordination experience to support staffing, scheduling, physician communication, and daily lab operations.
Explore this workMANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE
From direct care
to directing a lab.
As Sleep Lab Director at Pioneers Medical Center, I managed staffing, patient scheduling, supplies, order review, and physician communication while continuing hands-on testing.
That experience shapes how I approach leadership: understand the work, keep communication clear, and help the team deliver it.
Explore my Director experienceSELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Work with a
practical purpose.
UNDERSTAND
PATIENT EDUCATION
Making PAP therapy easier to understand.
Clear equipment education, practical follow-up, and a patient-friendly CPAP brochure.
A-STEP
BUILD CONFIDENCEEDUCATION & MENTORING
Building an accredited A-STEP Course.
Curriculum, classroom materials, assessments, and hands-on clinical learning.
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Clinician. Educator.
Practical problem solver.
I’m a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist with experience across patient care, scoring, education, and sleep lab operations. I enjoy helping someone understand a complex topic and finding a better way to get everyday work done.
More about meSTART A CONVERSATION
Let’s put experience
to work.
Interested in patient education, technologist development, or sleep lab leadership? I’d welcome a conversation.
Get in touch