Surgical Technicians Are Often Overlooked as One of the Best Health Care Professions
During the last few years the Economy has been on a down swing. Jobs can be hard to come by, especially good career oriented work. But while the economy comes crushing down, the need for health care workers has not.
In health care there is a variety of different professions one can enter into. People choose to be LVN’s, CNA’s, physician assistants, sometimes even doctors. But one profession often times goes unnoticed, And that is surgical Technicians.
Surgical Technicians are medical professionals that are in charge of assisting the surgeons during a procedure. Their responsibilities during a procedure include sterilizing the surgical area, and keeping it sterilized. They also are in charge of sterilizing the tools that are used during the operation and being well versed in their usage and functions. During the procedure a surgical technician is in charge of handing the surgeon each and every tool they ask for. Whether it be the scalpel, the clamps, or suction, the surgical technician needs to be ready to hand the tool to the surgeon quickly. They tend to have added responsibilities depending on which surgeon they are assisting but for the most part those are their main responsibilities.
Unlike other medical professions, the surgical technician schooling is relatively fast and painless. The schooling teaches sterilization, the tools and techniques used for surgery, and clinical lab hours. It can easily be completed in under a year, and more often then not the training center provides job placement.
Depending on which facility the surgical Technician works for their starting pay varies from $18 dollars to $25 dollars an hour. However most of the money that the surgical technician makes is not from their base pay, it is from their on call pay. The surgical technician usually gets paid around $9 dollars an hour for each hour they are on call, and the surgical technician can easily be on call for weeks straight.
Now that doesn’t come across at first as a lot of money, however imagine being paid every hour of every day for weeks on end. The amount of money the surgical technician makes quickly adds up, and quite simply put, it is not uncommon fo them to clear 100K a year after a few years of employment.
One of the best parts is the only requirement for being on call is that the surgical technician is within a certain distance from the hospital. After that they can do whatever they want to do and get paid for simply living their lives.
One of my esteemed surgical technician colleagues was saying that last week he was on call for the entire seven days and was called into work once. He was paid for almost 350 hours of work but hadn’t come into work for 6 of those 7 days.
The career of Surgical Technicians is often not referenced when deciding which medical profession to go into. However it is quite simply one of the most laid back and rewarding careers a person can choose for themselves.
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