EMG Autonomics Lab Technician, Neurology

Mass General Brigham • Portsmouth, NH

1d • $21 - $30 • Onsite

About The Position

Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham. The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites. Our practices are located at 10 Members Way in Dover, NH, and 121 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth, NH. This position will support our expert providers treating adult patients, as well as pediatric patients. Our services include diagnosis and treatment options for headaches, migraines, epilepsy, stroke, neuromuscular disease, sleep disorders and more. Job Summary We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Autonomic Lab Neurodiagnostic Technologist to join our Neurology team! The operating hours are Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm. The Autonomic Technician role requires a strong clinical background, ideally with experience in neurodiagnostics such as EEG, EMG, sleep technology, or related autonomic testing. This position is primarily focused on autonomic testing (approximately 80%), with some EMG testing (about 20%). Responsibilities include preparing and educating patients prior to testing, conducting autonomic and EMG tests (with autonomic studies lasting up to two hours), monitoring blood pressure and heart rate, placing electrodes, stocking and maintaining testing rooms, and managing supplies and inventory. Training will take place in Portsmouth, where autonomic testing is currently based, with the ideal candidate able to support both Portsmouth and Dover locations as needed. A provider is always on site during testing, and the technician will work alongside nursing staff and another experienced technician. The technologist will measure the heart rate and blood pressure of the patient who will be exposed to a variety of stimuli that are controlled by the technologist such as deep breathing, active standing, and passive head-up tilting on a tilt-table. In addition, the technologist will perform a sympathetic skin response test that will evaluate and record the galvanic response from the skin. The technician will be responsible preparing the patient for all autonomic testing in the lab as well as providing explanations of what to expect. When the exams are complete, the technologist organizes the data into a report.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent required

Nice To Haves

• Can perform accurate EKG tracings
• Excellent patient interactive skills
• Can recognize life threatening arrhythmias
• Can recognize EKG artifact
• Can enter data quickly and accurately
• Can measure blood pressure

Responsibilities

• Correctly places EKG leads and electrodes to acquire a diagnostically accurate EKG
• Prepares a patient for testing
• Explains each autonomic test component to the patient and assures they understand what to expect, how to communicate during the test and why the test has been ordered
• Sets up the patient room with all necessary equipment before the patient’s test time
• Performs each autonomic test and records observations in real time
• Helps to maintain proper scheduling in conjunction with the scheduling department.
• Provides patients with pre-appointment paperwork and answers any patient questions prior to appointment date
• Maintains proper supply levels and orders additional testing supplies as needed
• Enters test result data

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED