Healthcare Practitioners
Neurodiagnostic Technologists
Also called: Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Technologist (Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Tech), Certified Neurodiagnostic Technologist, Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist (END Technologist), Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Technologist (IONM Tech)
US median pay
$50,290
per year, 2025
Job growth 2025–35
+5.9%
faster than average
Openings a year (US)
12,400
185,600 employed
Typical entry education
Postsecondary nondegree award
Preparation 3/5 · Medium preparation
What this job is
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
What they do day to day
- Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
- Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
- Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
- Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
- Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
Skills and knowledge that matter most
Skills
- Social Perceptiveness3.2/5
- Service Orientation3.1/5
- Operations Monitoring3.1/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.1/5
- Instructing3.1/5
- Complex Problem Solving3.1/5
- Time Management3.0/5
- Systems Evaluation3.0/5
Knowledge
- English Language4.3/5
- Customer and Personal Service4.1/5
- Computers and Electronics4.0/5
- Medicine and Dentistry4.0/5
- Biology3.5/5
- Psychology3.4/5
Importance rated by people working in the job (1 = not important, 5 = extremely important).
Education and preparation
Preparation level 3 of 5 — Medium preparation. Usually vocational training, an associate's degree or an apprenticeship.
Typical entry education (BLS): Postsecondary nondegree award.
Highest education of people in this job:
- Associate's degree48%
- Post-secondary certificate35%
- Bachelor's degree16%
Who this job suits
Mostly Investigative
Ideas, research and solving problems
Realistic
Hands-on work with tools, machines, plants or animals
Conventional
Organising data, details and procedures
Based on the Holland (RIASEC) interest profile for this occupation.