Neurodiagnostic; EEG Lead Tech

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MO-SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

Regular

Leads the daily operations of the electroneurodiagnostic (END) testing area, ensuring that all compliance requirements and quality standards are met.

• Leads or coordinates shift operations of assigned activities, resources and staff. Oversees orientation and training and serves as a resource to department staff.
• Ensures all activities comply with regulatory agency standards.
• Conducts intraoperative monitoring and post-surgical monitoring of stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) during surgical procedures.
• Performs diagnostic electroencephalograph (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) procedures when not in the operating room. Performs neuromonitoring of routine and continuous EEGs.
• May perform Magnetoencephalography (MEG) procedures or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) procedures.
• Works under limited supervision with oversight focused on complex new assignments. Completes a variety of atypical assignments.
• Routinely checks status of EEG software, troubleshoots, and notifies appropriate service and user personnel when troubleshooting procedures fail.
• Maintains appropriate logs for statistical and accounting purposes, and performs calculations for required reports.
• Assists in quality assurance monitoring, environmental controls, infection control standards, equipment selection, operation, application and inventory.
• Identifies and corrects for artifacts. Edits and forwards results to attending physician for analysis and interpretation.
• Maintains EEG, EMG, and MEG equipment and supplies.
• May provide input for hiring, training, leading, and evaluating staff.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

• Three years' experience in electroneurodiagnostic procedures

• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent reaching, gripping, and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Occasional bending, stooping, crawling, kneeling, sitting, squatting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional use of vision to judge distances and spatial relationships.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving patients.
• Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Occasional driving.

• Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• And
  • Certification for Magnetoencephalography Technologist (CMEG) - ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing and Accreditation
  • Or
  • Certification for Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring (CNIM) - ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing and Accreditation
  • Or
  • Certified in Long Term Monitoring (CLTM) - American Board of Registration of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential Technologists (ABRET)
  • Or
  • Registered Electroencephalographic Technologist (R. EEG T.) - ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing and Accreditation
  • Or
  • Registered Nerve Conduction Study Technologist ( R.NCS.T.) - American Association of Electrodiagnostic Technologists (AAET)
  • Or
  • Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) - Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT)

State of

Work Location:

Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin

Day Shift (United States of America)

Employee

EMG/EEG

40

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