About the Role
The EEG technician monitors brain activity by recording electrical impulses to diagnose conditions like epilepsy, strokes, and multiple sclerosis.
Responsibilities
- Set up and perform EEG tests
- Place electrodes on a patient's scalp
- Monitor the patient's condition during the test
- Adjust equipment as needed
- Maintain and calibrate EEG equipment
- Interpret EEG results
- Report findings to a physician
- Prepare patients for testing
- Assist in training other EEG technicians
- Contribute to research studies
Requirements
- High School Diploma
- Graduate of approved EEG School/And or Sleep Program preferred
- Minimum of one year hospital experience preferred
- ABRET certification or ABRET eligible
- Demonstrates the necessary knowledge, technical skills and critical thinking ability to perform EEG testing for a select patients with physician’s order.
- Must be able to respond in a patient emergency
- Basic technical skills/direction and supervision from physician, nursing staff department supervisor.
- Constant walking, standing, stooping, bending, lifting of patients and heavy equipment.
- Manual dexterity and physical agility required.
Location
- New Rochelle, New York
Work Type
- Per-Diem
- Day Shift
- Alternate Work Schedule
Education Level
- High School Diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $38.00 per hour
About the Company
- Montefiore is a premier academic health system and the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, serving the more than 3 million people living in the New York City region and the Hudson Valley.
- Montefiore is doing more to deliver science-driven care where, when and how patients need it most.
- With our new member and affiliate locations in Westchester, Rockland and Orange counties, Montefiore offers patients state-of-the-art healthcare close to home.
Equal Opportunity
- Montefiore is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
