Nationwide Children's Hospital

Overview:

Job Description Summary:

Monitors and records electrical activity of the brain in patients in the CLTM and ICU settings and coducts detailed analysis.

Job Description:

Essential Functions:

• Educates patients and their families, explaining epilepsy monitoring unit procedures and stay expectations.
• Manages the digital video EEG system, troubleshooting any issues and ensuring accurate recording. Discerns physiologic and nonphysiologic artifacts, archiving, marking, and editing clinically significant events according to facility procedures.
• Participates with the epilepsy monitoring unit, collaborating with medical teams including nurses, physicians, and other medical staff.
• Pursues personal professional development and maintains required ABRET continuing education standards.
• Recognizes and responds to significant clinical events and electroencephalographic patterns, following facility protocols for critical test results and documenting appropriately.
• Utilizes EEG technology concepts and advanced LTME techniques and performs activating procedures according to hospital protocols.

Education Requirement:

• Graduation from a Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) accredited Electroneurodiagnostic (END) Program, required.
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferred.

Licensure Requirement:

(not specified)

Certifications:

• Registered by the American Board of Registered Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists, required.
• BLS certification, required.
• Certified in long-term monitoring (CLTM*), required.

Skills:

(not specified)

Experience:

• Three years of experience in the neurodiagnostic field, required.
• Two years of experience in long-term monitoring for epilepsy, required.

Physical Requirements:

OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Decision Making, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 21-40 lbs, Loud Noises, Patient Equipment, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 26-40 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 41-60 lbs, Sitting

FREQUENTLY: Computer skills, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Interpreting Data, Machinery, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Standing, Walking

CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Color vision, Depth perception, Hearing acuity, Peripheral vision, Seeing – Far/near

Additional Physical Requirements performed but not listed above:

(not specified)

"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"