EEG Technician
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY
days
Sign-On Bonus

EEG Technician (non ABRET registered)-Phillips Neurology Practice-Mount Sinai Union Square-Full Time, Days

Description EEG Technician (non ABRET registered)-Phillips Neurology Practice-Mount Sinai Union Square-Full Time, Days The EEG Technician is responsible for conducting EEG procedures to record and analyze brainwave activity in patients with neurological conditions. They work closely with neurologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure accurate data collection and test results, patient comfort and safety, and overall effectiveness of the monitoring process. Responsibilities * The EEG Technician performs all types of EEG recordings in various outpatient and inpatient settings including routine EEGs, ambulatory EEGs, continuous video EEGs, electro-cerebral silence EEGs and intracranial EEGs. It includes also EEG monitoring during special procedures such as WADA, cerebral corticography, mapping and others. * Verifies the identity of the patient before test/procedure. Explains the procedure and equipment to patient clearly. Answers inquiries and reassures patient before and during test in order to obtain the patient's cooperation for the best performance of the test. Provides for patient privacy at all times. * Summarizes the patient's neurologic status and clinical history from the chart or other knowledgeable persons. Explains in detail the recording procedures to the patient and family members present. Views chart for use of anticonvulsive meds and consults family or caregiver. * Adapts methods and instrumentation, to make patient feel calm and comfortable during testing to obtain optional results, the best EEG findings, and an EEG record free of artifacts. * Measures head appropriately, places electrodes according to the modified 10-20 International system and checks their integrity. * Uses extra electrodes and sensors to record additional physiological parameters as indicated, i.e. for ECG, eye movements, muscle movements, respiration, oxygen saturation, etc. * Knows head dressing and wrapping techniques to secure electrodes and reduce risk of skin breakdown. * Recognizes patient and/or environmental artifacts and takes proper steps to document, eliminate and/or monitor. * Recognizes and identifies electrographic normal, abnormal and variant patterns, which at time demands immediate communication with neurologists and medical staff attending the patient. * Maintains integrity of long-term EEG studies, ensuring that patient electrodes and head wrap are intact, impedance is low and recordings are technically interpretable, patient event button is working, and video and audio are properly recording. * Transfers patients and EEG equipment to different rooms and units as needed. * Checks the skin periodically on patients on video EEG monitoring and acts appropriately to prevent skin breakdown. * Appropriately uses activating procedures such as hyperventilation, photic stimulation and sleep. Documents relevant patient history, events, medications and level of consciousness in the recordings as per departmental guidelines. * Writes all clinical observations during seizures and other patient emergency situations * Upon completion of test, removes electrodes, gels, residue from scalp and cleans patient's head/hair. * Logs and documents the EEG procedures in Epic and Natus according to departmental and hospital policies. * Maintains the EEG database, clips, prunes, and archives EEG records. * Follows departmental and hospital policies for infection control including hand hygiene, personal protective equipment and protocols for specific precautions and infection diseases. * Keeps EEG room clean and neat at all times. Cleans and disinfects equipment. * Assesses and maintains patient safety precautions during EEG monitoring. * Troubleshoots equipment, performs minor repairs and reports problems to the manager. * Insures electrical safety of equipment and patient at all times. * Takes special care to safeguard protected health information according HIPAA regulations. * Acts as a resource to residents, physicians and other technicians, providing assistance as necessary. * Participates in conferences, technical meetings, and other continuing educational activities when possible. * Demonstrates a courteous, customer-service oriented manner with patients, visitors and co-workers and contributes to a productive, efficient work environment. Qualifications * HS/GED * Associates or Bachelors Degree is preferred and education with emphasis on physical or biological sciences is advantageous * One year of clinical EEG experience in outpatient or inpatient settings. * Successful completion of an educational program for EEG Technician. * Basic understanding of EEG Equipment, electrode placement and data collection techniques. * Proficiency in recognizing artifacts and ensuring high-quality EEGs. * Basic proficiency in recognizing normal, abnormal and variant patterns of EEG. SEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and MS Downtown, ALB - Phillips Neurology Practice - USD, Union Square - Downtown Employer Description Strength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: * Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. * Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. * Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! "About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism." EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans Compensation The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $35.2902 - $38.52 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.