Title: Temp - Technician - EEG (Days) Mattoon, IL
Description: EEG Technologists perform EEGs and assist Neurologists and Neuro Technologists with the performance of EMGs, clinic visits, and other clinical aspects of the department.
Responsibilities
- Assists Neuro Tech with NCVs and other clinical aspects of the department.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of neurology and electroencephalography.
- Explains testing procedures for the EEG to the patient and family.
- Keeps equipment clean and in proper working order. Makes appropriate adjustments to settings, etc., to obtain accurate results.
- Obtains accurate and concise patient histories.
- Prepares patients and equipment for requested examinations and performs EEGs according to standards of the laboratory, resulting in high-quality EEG exams.
- Produces accurate and complete EEG reports with emphasis on clinical observations.
- Recognizes, monitors, and/or eliminates artifacts and performs routine activation procedures such as hyperventilation.
- Responds appropriately to patient emergencies and takes appropriate precautions to prevent patient infections.
- Understands the effects that medications can have on EEGs.
- Verifies MD orders by checking the written order & verifying patient ID.