EEG Technician

Who We Are:

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is the only hospital providing emergency and ambulatory care to the densely populated, culturally and economically diverse, and medically underserved populations of the Rockaways and Five Towns in southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County, New York. Celebrating over 110 years of community care, the 257-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventive, diagnostic treatment and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay.

Come Grow With Us

Type: Per Diem

Shift: Varies

Hours: Varies

Pay: $32.77 per hour

Job Summary:

It is the responsibility of the EEG Technician to instruct and position the patient for EEG testing, properly execute EEG test, preliminarily review test for possible evidence of disorders, seizures, or extraneous artifacts. The Technician will also maintain EEG equipment and report and document malfunctioning equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Record via an electroencephalograph impulse frequencies and differences in electrical potential between various areas of the brain
• Record via doppler, audio signal, and velocity waveforms indices from the ocular artery for diagnostic purposes
• Record via a TECA Computerized analyzer brain auditory responses, visual responses, and somatosensory evoked responses as an aid to neurological disorder diagnosis
• Study characteristics of tracings to detect brain wave disorders and identifies traces caused by interferences
• Prepare patient for testing by attaching electrodes to specific positions on the patients head and body locations, and placing probes to specific positions outside the eye

Requirements:

• High School diploma or Equivalency
• EEG Certification
• 3 months formal training at a hospital having a neurology lab. 3-6 months apprenticeship training acceptable
• Knowledge of all EEG machinery and equipment
• Previous experience working as an EEG Technician in a hospital preferred
• Knowledge of Neuroanatomy preferred