Yes.

You might have some trouble finding someone to hire you. If you currently do not have a pathway to take the CNIM, you might have an uphill battle. If you’re great at customer service and/or sales, maybe you have a shot. But you’ll have to get past some gatekeepers first.

• Talk to as many people as you can. I suggest using LinkedIn. You’ll get mainly ignored, but some people will talk to you.
• Check out the ASNM’s website. They’re pumping out some good info.
• If you’re looking for more technical info, I’d head over to Amazon to purchase a book. I’d probably spend a lot of time doing Google searches first, though.

Sorry. That used to be an option when I first got into this field. Hospitals are really under the gun to keep out anyone that shouldn’t be there. That means that the cost of credentialing is way too high to bring in people to shadow.

Depends on your credentials and experience. There are more risk and expense in general, so you might have more limited options. I’d look through LinkedIn to try to find people that were successful and reach out to them and their company.

It really depends on everyone’s situation. If you’re in a big city and working for trauma centers, you’re going to have a less predictable schedule. If you’re working with ENTs and ortho docs, you might have a schedule planned pretty far out.

Some jobs traveling means an hour on the road. Some jobs travel means hopping on a plane. Some jobs are slammed all the time and you might get a day off a couple times a month. Others are less busy.

That is… until you gain or lose business. Then you might find yourself traveling more or less or working more or less.

But in general, you get your schedule the night before. You show up to the hospital an hour before the case starts. You do your case or cases, rinse and repeat. Sometimes your case cancels and you go home early. Sometimes others add and you stick around to cover it.

That’s not just neuromonitoring. For the most part, that’s what it looks like working in surgery.

I know a lot of people’s salaries, but that’s not my information to give out. There are some surveys that you can find by doing a little digging on Google. I’d also suggest looking at places like Indeed or Salary.com to see what other people have responded. The range is pretty wide.

Probably not. The robots are coming, haven’t you heard?

But I would say that to any job (lawyers, truck driver, actuary, etc.). At the rate of advancement, I think the world is going to look a lot different as far as what a “job” looks like.