(END) - Overview

• Program Information
• END Technologist Duties
• Program Faculty
• Prerequisite Information
• Physical Requirements
• Graduation Requirements

Program Information

The 18-month (6 Quarter) continuous Electroneurodiagnostic (END) Technology program provides didactic and clinical education in Electroneurodiagnostic Technology. Clinical education begins in our state-of-the-art, 6-bed, Academic Neurodiagnostic Laboratory on campus and continues at partnering medical centers and medical offices throughout Northern California. 

Program participants can expect substantial off-campus study and preparation for classroom lecture and lab exercises. Major holidays are observed and break periods are observed between academic quarters. Annual academic calendars are published in advance.

Upon completion of this program, graduates are eligible to sit for ABRET national registration examinations.

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END Technologist Duties

An END technologist is a professional multi-skilled person, who prepares patients for procedures, obtains medical histories, records electrical brain and spinal cord potentials, calculates results, maintains equipment, and may work with specific treatments. They develop a good rapport with patients and comfort them during the recording procedure, which can last from 20 minutes (for a single nerve conduction study) to several days or even weeks when involved in an overnight sleep study, long-term epilepsy monitoring, or Intraoperative neuromonitoring procedure. END Technologists understand neurophysiology and recognize normal and abnormal electrical activity. They act as eyes and ears for specially trained doctors who later review and interpret the data. 

Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists’ duties vary from facility to facility and depend on office location, size, and whether an END Technologist develops an area of concentration. The basic responsibilities include performing the most common electroneurodiagnostic procedures which are the electroencephalogram (EEG), Long-Term Epilepsy Monitoring (LTEM), the Polysomnogram (PSG), Evoked Potential Studies (EP), Nerve Conduction Studies (NCV), and Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM).

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Program Faculty

Program Director
Lorri S. Carlson-Lunceford, R. EEG T., RPSGT, B.A. 

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Prerequisite Requirements

All prerequisite requirements must be completed prior to applying to the program.

1.  All applicants must have completed an Associate’s degree before admission. 

2.  All applicants must have completed the following courses with a grade of “C” or better. Courses must be college level and a minimum of 3 units.

• Human Anatomy & Physiology with a lab (college level)
• Intermediate Algebra
• Written Communication

3.  The following courses are suggested additional courses (college level):

• Oral Communication (Speech)
• Ethics (Philosophy)
• Computer Science (Intro Level)
• Organic Chemistry

Note: All foreign diplomas and transcripts must include a notarized translation in English and must be evaluated by a foreign transcript agency prior to submission.

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Physical Requirements

You must be physically able to:

• Stand and/or walk up to 8 hours throughout an 8-hour shift
• Lift and move a maximum of a 290-pound patient in a 2-person/3-person transfer
• Must be able to operate and manipulate all Neurodiagnostic equipment
• Considerable reaching, stopping, bending, kneeling, crouching
• Push a patient in a wheelchair or gurney 300 feet or further, as required by structural design of the building
• Move loads of up to 45 pounds 25 times per hour
• Visual acuity of 20/60 in at least one eye with or without correction
• Hearing sensitivity bilaterally within normal limits (0-24 db HL) aided / non-aided, and/or speech discrimination, within functional limits, for telephone and personal communication.

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Graduation Requirements

To graduate with a certificate of completion from any of the KPSAHS programs, students are required to successfully complete all didactic and clinical education courses and hours. In addition, all financial obligations to the program must be fulfilled.

Students must maintain at least a 70% in all classes for successful completion

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