Health professionals conduct research; improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods; and apply scientific knowledge relating to medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, and promotion of health. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the fourth ISCO skill level.
Job Description:
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
Duties and Tasks:
1) Attach electrodes to patients using adhesives.
2) Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
3) Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
4) Calibrate, troubleshoot, or repair equipment and correct malfunctions as needed.
5) Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
6) Measure patients’ body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
7) Adjust equipment to optimize viewing of the nervous system.
8) Collect patients’ medical information needed to customize tests.
9) Measure visual, auditory, or somatosensory evoked potentials (EPs) to determine responses to stimuli.
10) Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
11) Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
12) Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
13) Submit reports to physicians summarizing test results.
14) Assist in training technicians, medical students, residents or other staff members.
15) Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients as needed.
16) Participate in research projects, conferences, or technical meetings.
Activities:
1) Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
2) Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
3) Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
4) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
5) Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
6) Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
7) Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
8) Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
9) Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
10) Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
11) Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
12) Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
13) Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
14) Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
15) Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
16) Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
17) Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
18) Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
19) Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
20) Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
21) Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
22) Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
23) Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment — Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
24) Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
25) Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
26) Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
27) Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
28) Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
Abilities:
1) Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
2) Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
3) Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
4) Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
5) Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
6) Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
7) Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
8) Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
9) Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
10) Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
11) Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
12) Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
13) Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
14) Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
15) Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
16) Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
17) Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Knowledge
Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.