Neurodiagnostic Tech II

Atlantic Health System, is seeking a Full-Time Neurodiagnostic Tech II for the Electroneurodiagnostics Department at Overlook Medical Center. Required hours vary (12 and a half hour shifts), including rotating weekends.

Essential Function/Responsibilities:

• Obtains relevant patient history and use information to guide testing performance. Explains procedure to the patient. Demonstrates respect for the patient and family. Follows all patient safety guidelines and ensures a safe environment.

• Demonstrates knowledge and competency of medications and their effects on EEG studies.

• Displays competency of using the 10-20 international electrode placement system and head measurement. Precisely applies electrodes. Recognizes and eliminates artifact by troubleshooting and correcting malfunctions. Selects appropriate amplification settings and montages. Obtains quality data, ensuring technical quality regardless of patients age or disability.

• Monitors patients during testing. Works under the supervision of physicians who are responsible for the interpretation and clinical correlation of results but who is not normally present during testing. Ability to analyze data during the recording to ensure validity and interpretability.

• Performs EEGs (routine, ambulatory, sleep-deprived) within the department as well as the bedside for adults and pediatrics. Able to record EEGs while anticonvulsive medications are administered.

• Ability to work independently and make on-line decisions regarding data collection. Ability to adapt methods in obtaining technical studies according to clinical observations and tracings.

• Knowledgeable in communicating an emergency and able to care for patient during seizures.

• Performs epilepsy monitoring for adults and pediatrics. Responsible for initial set up and on-going timely maintenance of ongoing testing. Monitors skin integrity and reports skin breakdown to nursing. Is skilled in pattern recognition and artifact detection.

• Performs Evoked Potential testing (Baer/VEP) and continuous ICU monitoring.

• Displays competency in clipping, pruning and data archiving.

• Shows competency in Phase II Long term Monitoring. This will include, but not be limited to grid and strip planning and placement, programming of computer for grid and strip monitoring, maintenance, and connection of phase II lead wires with cable interface, dressing changes, functional mapping at bedside, EEG monitoring during WADA procedures, EEG digitization methods.

• Assist with MEG procedures, setting up patient’s collection data under supervision of an experienced MEG technologist.

• Accurate and timely data collection. Submits all required information for work sheets, data logs, billing sheets included data entered within electronic data bases. Checks work and resolved errors timely.

• Equipment maintenance: ensures proper care and handling of all equipment and ensures that preventable damage does not occur. Maintains electrodes, headboxes and other peripheral equipment to protect integrity and ensure long-term viability.

• Professionalism: timely and respectful communication with nursing staff, physicians, and colleagues. Promotes self-growth and development. Collaborating as needed to ensure a satisfactory experience to the patient.

• Operates under limited guidance and work assignments involve moderately complex to complex situations that may need a good collaborative approach and relationship with colleagues and units.

• Performs related duties as required.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• HS Diploma/GED Required.

• Associate’s/bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and related experience (at least 1 year).

• To provide a safe environment to our patients, we require that all candidates must be able to read, write and speak English.

• Must have Graduate/Certificate from an accredited Neurodiagnostic Program and must have completed a clinical Neurodiagnostic internship.

• Must have R. EEG T. (ABRET board registration in EEG)

Relevant Experience:

• 2+ years of clinical experience preferred.

• 2+ years of Electroneurodiagnostic (END) technology experience preferred.

• Previous experience working in a hospital setting preferred.

ABOUT US

At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities, will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ

• Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ

• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ

• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ

• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ

• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ

• CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ

• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice

• Atlantic Mobile Health

• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.

We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine for 15 years

• Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare

• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare

• 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review

• Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP

• Gold-Level "Well Workplace": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)

• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for “Millennials” Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine

• One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine

• Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets

• NJ Sustainable Business

Named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades, a World’s Best Hospital by Newsweek and recognized as a Best Regional Hospital in the NY Metro area by U.S. News & World Report.

Our Atlantic Neuroscience Institute is the region’s leader in neuroscience care. A hub for the New Jersey Stroke Network, we offer a broad range of advanced neurological, neurosurgical and neurodiagnostic services. We are also certified as a Level IV Epilepsy Center and home to the Gerald J. Glasser Brain Tumor Center, where more brain tumor surgeries are performed than anywhere else in New Jersey. Our CyberKnife® program is the largest and most experienced in the state. We also have a satellite emergency department in Union, NJ, which treats about 40,000 emergency cases each year.

Committed to providing exceptional care, Overlook Medical Center has achieved the prestigious Magnet® recognition. This designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center is the highest national honor for nursing excellence. What’s more, Overlook Medical Center has advanced certification from The Joint Commission for perinatal care and is designated an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center. Additional Joint Commission-certified services include behavioral health care, spine surgery, wound care, and primary care medical home (PCMH).

EEO STATEMENT

Atlantic Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.