Neurodiagnostic Technologists

What the job really is

Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.

At a glance

• Sector: Healthcare Practitioners
• O*NET-SOC code: 29-2099
• O*NET job zone: 3 — medium preparation
• Work sample tasks on file: 12
• Tools and technologies listed: 12

What you actually do

Work sample tasks recorded for this occupation:

• Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
• Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
• Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
• Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
• Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
• Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
• Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
• Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
• Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
• Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
• Submit reports to physicians summarizing test results.
• Calibrate, troubleshoot, or repair equipment and correct malfunctions, as needed.

Tools and technology

JavaScript, MEDITECH software, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, R, Air dryers, BESA EEGFocus, Cadwell Laboratories Easy, Computer monitors

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Where this job leads

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Getting in

O*NET assigns this occupation job zone 3 (medium preparation). The related occupations above are the realistic routes in and out.

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