Neurodiagnostic Technologist

Neurodiagnostic Technologist

Department:
Neurophys

Location:

SPC-Plano

Shift: 7:00pm-7:30am 3x12 Thursday-Saturday, every other Sunday

Job Type: On-Site

Why Children's Health?

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being. Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community.

Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:

This position independently performs advanced neurodiagnostic procedures, including EEG and Long Term Video EEG monitoring procedures in all settings (ACS, ED, critical care, neonatal ICU. Neurodiagnostic procedures, including patient interaction, safety, and appropriate system settings, are tailored to the individual patient's needs, the reason for the referral, and medical history. Competent technical recording of Neurodiagnostic procedures requires the technologist to exercise a significant degree of independent judgment, technical troubleshooting, and communication with all members of the healthcare team, patient, and family.

Technologists may need to adapt to clinical and environmental situations and tailor the procedure to the specific patient needs.

Responsibilities:

• Core skills and knowledge:
  The electroneurodiagnostic (END) technologist has the knowledge base to interact with the patient and family, and the care team independently to obtain a quality, interpretable EEG recording. Recognizes significant clinical events and EEG patterns. Troubleshoots, resolves issues, and offers solutions in situations that are atypical or occur infrequently based on defined procedures and existing precedents.
• Specific Abilities:
• High proficiency in all aspects of EEG done within the department with understanding of ACNS Guidelines and recommendations and in adherence with Children's Health Policies & Procedures and department standard workflows.
• Performs advanced neurodiagnostic procedures to include routine and continuous EEG techniques in all situations and in all age groups independently with minimal supervision.
• Able to orient EEG new team members to department workflows of the competency during onboarding.
• Has developed proficiency in all technical EEG processes or procedures through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience.
• Understands the roles of all immediate team members and has a good understanding of how Neurophysiology integrates with other departments and providers internal and external to the department.
• Provides guidance and support to more junior team members on challenging technical problems; helps them balance their workload and apply their technical skills.
• Possesses the appropriate knowledge level of diseases to correlate patient history and clinical symptoms to determine appropriate technical settings, adjustments to protocols, and activation procedures to be performed during the EEG.
• Impacts the quality, timeliness and effectiveness of the team.
• Works within defined processes but may have to appropriately adapt technical approach based on the situation at hand.
• Explains complex technical information in situations that may be challenging with respect to controversial subject matter or characteristics of the audience.
• Learns to perform other procedures as needed by the department (such as Evoked Potentials, NCV, Long-Term EEG Monitoring, or other neurodiagnostic procedures as assigned by the manager.
• Actively pursues ongoing education in the field of neurodiagnostics.
• Performs competency check-off and onboarding duties as assigned by manager or team leader.
• Learns to perform advanced intracranial EEG/EP recordings during special studies or neurosurgical intra-operative or extra-operative cases, topographic mapping of EEG/EP data and NCVs as needed by the department.
• Performs or learns to…