Description
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
Interests
- Investigative
- Realistic
- Conventional
Work Values
- Support
- Relationships
- Independence
Work Styles
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Concern for Others
- Integrity
- Cooperation
Tasks
- Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
- Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
Work Activities
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Working with Computers
- Getting Information
Detailed Work Activities
- Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Technology Skills
- Medical software
- Presentation software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Spreadsheet software
- Office suite software
Abilities
- Oral Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Information Ordering
Skills
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
Knowledge
- English Language
- Customer and Personal Service
- Computers and Electronics
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Biology
Most Common Education Level
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Certificates
Certificate name
NeuroAnalyst-CLTMCertifying Organization
ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing & Accreditation
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Certified Polysomnographic TechnicianCertifying Organization
Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Registered Evoked Potential TechnologistCertifying Organization
ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing & Accreditation
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Certified Magnetoencephalography TechnologistCertifying Organization
ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing & Accreditation
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Registered Polysomnographic TechnologistCertifying Organization
Board of Polysomnographic Technologists
Type
Core
Income Percentile
The income percentiles show how earnings are distributed within a profession. The 10th percentile means that 10% of workers earned less than that amount. The median (50th percentile) indicates that half of workers earned more, and half earned less. The 90th percentile reflects what the top 10% of earners in the field make.
| Income Percentile | Annual Income |
|---|---|
| Low (10%) | $39,180 |
| Median (50%) | $45,780 |
| High (90%) | $60,996 |
Income by Experience
This table shows how income typically grows with experience—from entry level (0–2 years), to mid-level (3–5 years), to senior level (6–8 years), to expert level (8+ years).
| Experience | Income |
|---|---|
Entry Level  | N/A |
| Mid Level | N/A |
| Senior Level | N/A |
| Expert Level | N/A |
Employability
There are currently 177,900 jobs in this career path. Over the next 10 years, that number is expected to increase to 190,400 positions, reflecting a projected growth of 7%.
The Projected Job Growth figure refers to the expected increase or decrease in employment within a specific career field over a certain period of time.
Projected Job Growth of 7%
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