No state in the United States requires a license to conduct electroneurodiagnostic studies on a patient. However, in a few states, respiratory care practice laws may be interpreted as restricting who can measure certain respiratory functions and initiate corrective procedures during a sleep study. The competency standard for the END technologist is successful completion of the national board examinations for the procedures being performed. Professional credentials are available for EEG, evoked potentials, nerve conduction, sleep, and intraoperative monitoring. Electroneurodiagnostics, or END for short, is a term for the field of medicine that uses specialized instruments to study the tiny electrical signals generated by the brain and its many pathways.
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Salaries depend on education, experience, level of responsibility, type of employment, and area of the country. Technologists who hold professional credentials, college degrees, and who owned their own business commanded the highest salaries. They maintain a list of advocacy groups that can provide information written in non-technical terms. You could plan in-service programs for your technologists using the National Competencies for Performing EEG and EP as an outline for areas to study. You might also try having them take a mock EEG exam to see in what areas they need more study.