Surgical Neurophysiologist

This position is for a CNIM who can live anywhere between East Tampa and Kissimmee, FL. We have accounts throughout the areas with the main account in Lakeland, FL.

We have been industry leaders in the field of intraoperative neuromonitoring since our inception in 2005 through our focus on quality patient care, turn-key service, and ongoing staff development.

USNEURO provides comprehensive training, continuing education, and numerous opportunities for career development.

Responsibilities:

• Complete all necessary electronic workflow in accordance with the departmental policies ensuring all data is secure and accessible post-operatively.
• Record relevant patient history and review with the oversight clinical neurophysiologist.
• Participate in all department specific mandatory training.
• Continually advance skills set by reading books, professional journals, and online training materials
• Obtain standard recordings, report findings to the oversight clinical neurophysiologist.
• Ability to adapt to change in the work environment, manage competing demands and deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events. Service minded; drive to provide best care and service for patient and surgical team.
• Apply suitable electrodes on predetermined measured positions on the patient's head, trunk, and extremities. Select predetermined electrode combination; check their performance as well as adjusting for non-standard montages as needed.
• Able to recognize discrepancies between patient's ordered testing and their diagnosis. Keep abreast of the advanced technology in the Neurodiagnostic field. Continue to acquire knowledge of the following; normal brain anatomy and function, diseases and electrical patterns of the brain.
• Ability to accurately setup and monitor brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAER), electroencephalography (EEG), cranial nerve EMG/MEP, upper and lower extremity EMG/MEP, sphincter EMG/MEP, phase reversal, upper and lower extremity somatosensory evoked potentials, direct cortical stimulation (DCS), and trans-cranial motor evoked potentials.
• Training on the above modalities is available for the person looking to learn.
• Operate the equipment according to departmental policy in order to obtain optimal results.
• Recognize artifacts; differentiate them from evoked potential patterns and take appropriate steps to eliminate them.
• Monitor other physiological parameters during testing as described in the departmental policy
• Ability to recognize real-time changes in data and report changes to the oversight clinical neurophysiologist
• Exercise judgment during testing or intraoperative monitoring for the need of the oversight clinical neurophysiologist or physician’s intervention.
• Collaborate with anesthesia team regarding optimum delivery of anesthetic based on clinical assessment and document requested modalities.
• Understand thoroughly various disease states and factors that relate to them, various medication effects, clinical changes or complications to ensure high technical quality.
• Communicate with attending physician in a timely manner determining a plan for which modalities to be performed to procedure. Document any request made by surgeon according to departmental policy.
• Display and label waveforms for marking, measuring and calculating information such as latencies, amplitudes, and conduction times following established guidelines and protocols.
• Participate in 24-7-365 case coverage, including call as laid out by the department supervisor.
• Transport equipment between facilities in a safe and secure manner. Prepare/setup testing carts within departmental guidelines ensuring equipment and patient's safety is taken into consideration.
• Perform all necessary troubleshooting in situations of suboptimal results prior to and during any diagnostic testing procedure or intraoperative procedure.
• Assist medical staff during nonstandard procedures. Assist with research collection data. Assist with the administrative duties of the supervisor during absences. Function as a consultant for junior staff providing guidance in all situations and use judgment to determine course of action.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of one (1) year of Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring (IONM) experience OR
• Bachelor's degree with a focus in IONM and at least 6 months of IONM experience (outside of BS program).

Licensure, Certifications

• CNIM Certification
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Driver's License

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person