EEG Technician -Per Diem

EEG Technician I-Per Diem About City of Hope

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix.

Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission:
To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Provides auxiliary technical support for a clinical neurodiagnostic laboratory which offers EEG's, EMG's, nerve conduction tests, evoked potential tests, audiograms, visual field testing and other tests within their scope of practice.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Performs clerical duties as required including scheduling of procedures, archiving of studies, and charge entry. Demonstrates basic computer skills. Maintains accurate and up-to-date patient records.
• Ability to carry out tests with some supervision.
• EEG's (adults and children), evoked potentials (visual, auditory, somatosensory, cognitive), audiograms, visual fields, and all other studies within their scope of practice.
• Under the guidance of more senior techs and physicians, assist with the recognition of artifacts (patient, instrumental, or environmental).
• Documents, eliminates, or takes proper measures to monitor the artifact. Assists more senior techs and physicians in monitoring and sensory nerve conduction tests, and EMGs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of appropriate actions to take during emergency situations. Ensures electrical safety to patients and staff. Developing knowledge of departmental infection control standards related to patients, equipment, and electrodes.
• Comply with department/institution guidelines for handling of infectious/hazardous materials.
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of neuroanatomy, physiology, basic electronics, electrical safety, END instrumentation, pattern recognition, and various medical and pharmacological conditions that influence procedures.
• Reviews studies with lead, supervisor, manager, director and/or interpreting physician and implements suggestions for quality improvement. Learns to perform additional and advanced procedures by supervised practice with increasing independence.
• Practices a high level of integrity and honesty in maintaining confidentiality.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Your qualifications should include:

• High School or equivalent
• Knowledge of medical terms. Experience working in a medical setting.
• Current BLS (American Heart Association)
• Registered EEG Technologist Certificate within 2 years of hire