Neurodiagnostic Technologist II

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

6d • Onsite

About The Position

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
• R. EEG T.
• <2 years experience

Nice To Haves

• Associate or Trade School Equi
• 2-5 years experience

Responsibilities

• Develops workflows, policies, and procedures related to new/changes to technology or services within Neurodiagnostic.
• Performs academic and routine inpatient and outpatient neurodiagnostic EEG testing procedures at both BJH and SLCH.
• Performs academic only procedures including 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

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