Neurodiagnostic Technologist, Neurology

Mass General Brigham•Dover, NH

5d•$21 - $30•Onsite

About The Position

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. Wentworth Health Partners Coastal Neurology Services has been providing adults and children with comprehensive and trusted care since 1983. Our board-certified physicians specialize in the prevention, diagnosis and management of an array of neurological disorders, including headaches, epilepsy, autism, ADHD, neuromuscular disease, neuropathy, sleep disorders, small-fiber polyneuropathy, stroke and more. Our Neurology practices are located at 10 Members Way in Dover, NH, and 73 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth, NH. We are seeking a 36-hour Neurodiagnostic Technologist to join our Neurology team. This position offers a schedule of four 8-hour shifts and one 4-hour shift each week. The Neurodiagnostic Technologist role requires a strong clinical background, ideally with experience in neurodiagnostics such as EEG, sleep technology, or related autonomic testing. This position is primarily focused on autonomic testing. Responsibilities include preparing and educating patients prior to testing, conducting autonomic 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. Responsible for performing standard electroencephalographic (EEG) examinations (includes routine awake and sleep EEGs, portable EEGs, long term monitoring bedside EEGs, and EMU) on both outpatients and inpatients. Responsibilities include test set up, electrode application, conduction of tests and the collection of information pertinent to the interpretation of the tests. This position requires Patient Care.

Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent required
Experience as a neurodiagnostic technologist 0-1 year preferred
Possess analytical skills to evaluate test results and understand patient needs
Excellent listening and communication skills both verbal and written
Demonstrate efficient knowledge of all equipment operation, tools and procedures specific to assigned area, and effectively troubleshoot issues as they arise
Ability to establish and maintain effective interpersonal professional relationships with physicians, management, peers, patients, and their families
Demonstrate strong customer service skills, including the ability to use appropriate judgment, independent thinking and creativity when resolving issues and conflict
Must have to ability to handle sensitive and confidential patient information

Nice To Haves

Registered Electroencephalographic Technologist [R. EEG T.] - ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing & Accreditation preferred
Proficient in obtaining accurate EKG tracings
Can recognize life-threatening arrhythmias as well as EKG artifacts
Able to enter data quickly and accurately
Competent in measuring blood pressure

Responsibilities

Preparing and educating patients prior to testing
Conducting autonomic tests (with autonomic studies lasting up to two hours)
Monitoring blood pressure and heart rate
Placing electrodes
Stocking and maintaining testing rooms
Managing supplies and inventory
Measuring 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
Performing a sympathetic skin response test that will evaluate and record the galvanic response from the skin
Preparing the patient for all autonomic testing in the lab as well as providing explanations of what to expect
Organizing the data into a report
Performing standard electroencephalographic (EEG) examinations (includes routine awake and sleep EEGs, portable EEGs, long term monitoring bedside EEGs, and EMU) on both outpatients and inpatients
Test set up, electrode application, conduction of tests and the collection of information pertinent to the interpretation of the tests
Collects patients medical information needed to customize tests
Indicates artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain such as poor electrode contacts or patient movement on electroneurodiagnostic recordings
Monitors patients during tests or surgeries using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment
Conducts tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma
Calibrates, troubleshoots, or repairs equipment and corrects equipment malfunctions