EEG Tech Trainee — Neuro Diagnostics

Charleston Area Medical Center; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Charleston Area Medical Center seeks an EEG Tech Trainee to support EEG, Evoked potentials, and EMG studies under the supervision of an experienced EEG tech. You will assist in patient preparation, electrode placement, recording, and artifact removal to aid physicians in brain-disease diagnoses.

Responsibilities include observing patients, performing activating procedures, recording responses, and assisting with data collection and equipment maintenance in a General Hospital setting.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates and prepares patients for EEG, Evoked potentials, and EMG procedures, explaining test procedures.
• Learn to select predetermined eletrencode combinations or special combinations made necessary by the case under study.
• Position patient, applying eletrencodes to the predetermined, measured positions on the patient's head.
• Demonstrates the ability to take readings and study wave characteristics, marking the graph accordingly for use by the physician.
• Shows ability to detect and eliminate from consideration all artifacts of larger amplitude caused by activity.
• Constant observation of the patient for any normal or abnormal behavior.
• Record reactions to specific activities by utilizing activating procedures such as hyperventilation, photic stimulation, and sleep.
• Monitor variables such as elecenteromyograms, elecenterocardiograms, elecenterooculograms, respirations, etc. when deemed necessary by circumstances at the EEG recording.
• Stop the equipment on completion of testing, removing eletrencodes, and assist patient.
• Abstract relevant information for use by the physician from the patient's clinical record, obtaining additional information by questioning the patient.
• Properly clean and sterilize equipment within the department.
• Maintain adequate laundry and supplies within the department.
• Calculate and plot all wave forms from a graph (following Evoked potential testing) which is later examined and evaluated by a physician trained to read and interpret evoked potentials.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Charleston Area Medical Center seeks an EEG Tech Trainee to support EEG, Evoked potentials, and EMG studies under the supervision of an experienced EEG tech. You will assist in patient preparation, electrode placement, recording, and artifact removal to aid physicians in brain-disease diagnoses.

Responsibilities include observing patients, performing activating procedures, recording responses, and assisting with data collection and equipment maintenance in a General Hospital setting.