Neuro Technologist - Neurology

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** - **Perform Neurodiagnostic Procedures:** Conduct Electroencephalography (EEG), Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV), Evoked Potential (EP) studies (VEP, BAER/BERA, SSEP), and assist neurologists during Electromyography (EMG) procedures in accordance with established clinical protocols. - **Prepare and Monitor Patients:** Prepare patients for neurodiagnostic investigations by explaining the procedures, ensuring informed cooperation, monitoring patient condition during testing, and maintaining patient comfort and safety throughout. - **Operate and Maintain Equipment:** Operate, calibrate, troubleshoot, and perform routine maintenance of neurodiagnostic equipment to ensure accurate test results and uninterrupted clinical services. - **Ensure Quality of Diagnostic Recordings:** Obtain high-quality neurophysiological recordings by ensuring proper electrode placement, minimizing artifacts, and adhering to standardized testing protocols. - **Maintain Clinical Documentation:** Accurately document patient history, procedure details, and test findings in the Hospital Information System (HIS)/Electronic Medical Record (EMR), ensuring timely submission for interpretation by the neurologist. - **Support Advanced Neurodiagnostic Services:** Assist in specialized procedures such as Video EEG monitoring, ICU EEG monitoring, long-term EEG studies, and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (where applicable). - **Ensure Compliance with Quality and Safety Standards:** Adhere to hospital policies, infection prevention and control practices, NABH/JCI standards, and departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) while maintaining patient confidentiality. - **Coordinate with Multidisciplinary Teams:** Collaborate effectively with neurologists, neurosurgeons, physicians, nursing staff, emergency services, ICU teams, and other healthcare professionals to ensure seamless patient care. - **Manage Departmental Resources:** Monitor the availability of consumables, maintain equipment logs, report equipment malfunctions, and coordinate preventive maintenance with the Biomedical Engineering department. - **Contribute to Continuous Improvement:** Participate in departmental audits, quality improvement initiatives, continuing education programs, clinical training, and mentor junior technologists and trainees to enhance departmental performance and patient care.