Supervisor

Archetype 10 Supervisor

Any supervisor should excel at:

  • Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
  • Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
  • Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

Mediator

Archetype 7 Mediator

Mediators should be capable of:

  • Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

Other work activities related to Neurodiagnostic technologists

  • Attaching electrodes to patients using adhesives.
  • Summarizing technical data to assisting physicians for diagnosing brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
  • Conducting tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
  • Calibrating, troubleshooting, or repairing equipment and correcting malfunctions as needed.
  • Conducting tests for determining cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
  • Measuring visual, auditory, or somatosensory evoked potentials (eps) for determining responses to stimuli.
  • Measuring patients’ body parts and marking locations where electrodes are to be placed.
  • Monitoring patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
  • Setting up, programming, or recording montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.