EEG Technician

About the Role

This position involves performing neurodiagnostic testing, including EEGs and sleep studies, while ensuring high-quality patient care and adherence to professional standards.

Responsibilities

• Verify insurance requirements, medical orders, and protocols.
• Complete and verify documentation for each patient encounter.
• Explain procedures and orient patients to the Sleep & Neurodiagnostic Center.
• Prepare, calibrate, and adjust equipment to ensure proper functioning.
• Apply electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards (e.g., 10/20 EEG hookup).
• Perform physiologic calibrations to ensure accurate signal collection.
• Conduct positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting and setup as needed.
• Follow procedural protocols for EEG tests, home studies, and other neurodiagnostic procedures.
• Establish and document baseline values during "lights out" procedures (e.g., body position, oxyhemoglobin saturation, respiratory and heart rates).
• Perform EEG data acquisition while monitoring and adjusting for artifact-free signals.
• Document routine observations, including sleep stages, clinical events, and procedural changes.
• Verify data integrity during "lights on" procedures and complete the data collection process.
• Provide age-specific care for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Learn to score sleep/wake stages using professionally accepted guidelines, if required.
• Adhere to the L.O.V.E. Promise and deliver patient services at the highest level of quality.
• Act as a caregiver and patient educator, ensuring clear communication with patients and staff.
• Participate in community outreach to inform the public about sleep disorders.
• Collaborate with the Sleep & Neurodiagnostic Center Director and other staff.

Requirements

• Knowledgeable with Natus Software and able to register/charge patients in Meditech.
• Effective communication with patients and staff, maintaining a professional attitude.
• Ability to perform 10/20 EEG hookup and follow published standards for electrode/sensor application.
• Demonstrated knowledge and technical skill for providing competent, comprehensive patient care.
• Registered EEG Technologist (R.EEG T.) strongly preferred; EEG credentialing may be required within a specified timeframe.
• May need to meet education requirements to become a registered technologist, including passing the EEG Exam or equivalent (e.g., ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing).
• Mandatory annual continuing education in Customer Service, Fire and Safety, Confidentiality-HIPAA, Infection Control, Corporate Compliance, and unit-specific competencies.

Physical and Mental Demands

• Assist ambulatory patients independently and transfer patients using mechanical lifts (up to 500 lbs with assistance).
• Lift up to 50 lbs independently; use mechanical devices or team lifting for weights over 50 lbs.
• Perform repetitive movements, including squatting, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling for more than two-thirds of the day.
• Push/pull patients up to 250 lbs in wheeled devices; use team assistance for weights over 250 lbs.
• Stand, walk, and maintain physical activity for extended periods.
• Vision requirements: close, distant, and peripheral vision with ability to adjust focus (e.g., reading thermometers, electronic scales).
• Hearing requirements: respond to codes, monitors, pagers, phones, alarms, and patient calls; auscultate blood pressure.
• Participate in an on-call schedule and drive to events, conferences, or patient homes as needed.
• Work in a high-stress environment with chronically ill patients of all ages.

Equipment Used

• EEG collection and analysis equipment.
• Home study collection equipment.
• Computers, including networked drives, telephones, fax machines, and automated messaging software.
• Scanners, accounting, and follow-up software.