South Shore Medical Services continues to grow, and we’d like you to grow with us.
Our team of neurophysiologists are the most experienced in the industry. South Shore Medical Services is committed to supporting professional growth for our associates. This is a great opportunity for you to work with our top surgeons and other medical professionals in a team environment and play a vital role in the operating room every day. South Shore Medical Services provides comprehensive training, continuing education, and numerous opportunities for career development with both Adult and Pediatric care for Neurosurgery and Vascular surgery.
The candidate must bring a high level of ethical, intellectual, professional and personal values that complement the team and company vision. The following competencies are highly valued:
- Focused on clinical quality and delivering the absolute best results for patients.
- Excellent communication skills and basic computer skills are essential.
- Ability to adapt and thrive in a high stress environment necessary.
- Proven self-starter who works well independently and as a part of the OR team.
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.
- Keep all work-stations clean and all equipment in working order.
- Ability to accurately setup and monitor brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAER), compound nerve action potentials (CNAP), 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.
- Operate the equipment according to departmental policy in order to obtain optimal results. (Cadwell)
- Recognize artifacts; differentiate them from evoked potential patterns and take appropriate steps to eliminate them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of one (2) year of Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring (IONM) experience Operating room
- Ability to drive self to facility in timely fashion (no further than 30 minutes) to arrive 1 hour prior of scheduled surgery
Licensure, Certifications
- CNIM Certification preferred but not required. Must be actively pursuing and plan on taking exam within 6 months
- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Driver's License
Job Type: Full-time / Weekend call / Part-time available
Education:
- Bachelor's
License/Certification:
- CNIM
Work Location: Long Island NY (Nassau and Suffolk County)
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $110,000.00 - $155,000.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
