Neurodiagnostic Technologist II

BJC HealthCare • Saint Louis, MO

124d • $24 - $41

About The Position

Become our next Neurodiagnostic Technologist II with a top-ranked hospital! Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Barnes-Jewish Hospital's staff is composed of full-time academic faculty and community physicians of Washington University School of Medicine, supported by a house staff of residents, interns, fellows and other medical professionals. Recognizing its excellence in nursing care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The Neurodiagnostic Lab compliments Barnes-Jewish Hospital's Neuroscience division. Our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit is a Level IV Epilepsy Center, utilizing state of the art video monitoring equipment with a dedicated staff of Neurologists and Neurodiagnostic technologists.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• Licenses & Certifications: R. EEG T.

Responsibilities

• Develops workflows, policies, and procedures related to new/changes to technology or services.
• Provides direct/indirect procedural supervision for Tech I & student technologists.
• Evaluates/audits EEG quality, leading performance improvement initiatives using LEAN principles for obtaining the academic level standard of quality for EEG procedures.
• Performs electrode maintenance and impedance checks to ensure EEG quality.
• Performs EEG recording technology troubleshooting as needed and escalates appropriately.
• Performs long term video EEG set up & monitoring, electrocorticography, cortical stimulation mapping, routine and/or intra-operative somatosensory evoked potentials, and intra-operative EEG monitoring with/without robotics independently (academic locations only).
• Performs routine, extended, and ambulatory EEG recordings independently and at the highest levels of patient acuity.
• Analyzes live and delayed long term video EEG data independently and at the highest levels of patient acuity.
• Performs annotation and clipping of long-term video EEG data independently (academic locations only).
• Validates physician orders, enters relevant patient history information into the EEG recording system, enters long term video EEG set-up and disconnect notes into the electronic medical record.
• Enters procedure changes into the electronic billing system.
• Archives EEG testing data.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: High school or GED