Centers should have a pool of identified EMU nurses. Core nursing staff are staff that are approved to care for patients in the EMU on a recurring basis. We expect that your center’s EMU policy includes how your center defines the core nursing competencies for the EMU staff. NAEC [...]

The Epilepsy Center Medical Director must have and maintain at least one of these board certifications: ABPN epilepsy, ABPN clinical neurophysiology, ABCN clinical neurophysiology, or ABCN epilepsy monitoring. Pediatric centers must have a board-certified pediatric epileptologist who has ABPN Child Neurology in addition to one of the board certifications [...]

Centers are required to have trained personnel dedicated to 24/7 to monitoring video and EEG. This requirement can be met by having staff take center-developed training or the ASET LTM 100: Introduction to Long Term Monitoring for EMU Personnel course. Centers should list the person who completed that course [...]

The EMU policy must include how all center staff (physicians, EEG technologists, nurses, monitor watchers, and any other relevant staff) are trained on EMU safety protocols. Training must be age-appropriate for the patient community served by the center. EEG Techs, EMU Nurses, and Monitor Watchers should receive training in [...]

Centers will be required to have a majority of all of their core staff trained– i.e., epileptologists, EEG techs, epilepsy nurses, monitor watchers. This can be accomplished through a center-developed training program or through other programs recognized by NAEC and included in the accreditation instructions. Centers must provide documentation [...]