Operating Room Technician

Duties and responsibilities: They are responsible for various pre-, intra-, and post-surgery duties within a hospital. Surgeons and registered nurses supervise their work. The majority of certified operating room technicians are employed in hospitals, but some also work in outpatient care centers, ambulatory surgical care centers and in the offices of doctors and dentists who do outpatient surgery.  They need to be emotionally stable and quick to respond to a surgeon’s needs during an operation without being told what to do. Certified operating room technicians also need to be conscientious, organized and orderly, and have the manual dexterity to manipulate surgical instruments.  

Salary: $45,940

Education: Graduation from an accredited surgical technology program is necessary to become initially certified as a surgical technologist. Surgical technology programs can be 9-15 month certificate or diploma programs or two-year associate degree programs. Courses for surgical technology typically include broad medical training in anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, in addition to more direct clinical courses in sterilization techniques and surgical instrumentation.

Demand: It has been projected that from 2014 to 2024 the need for all surgical technologists will increase by 15%.

I do not think that I would like to become an operating room technician because they are put under a tremendous amount of pressure. They can not mess up because if they do that might cost them a life.