Operating Room Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: An operating room technician is to assist a surgeon in handling the tools and and be responsible in what they different things are needed.  They prepare they surgery room and make sure that all the tools that will be needed are there. They also keep track of where everything is at that nothing is misplaced during the surgery. After, they are to take patients right back into recovery and cleanup the operating room that way it is ready for the next patient.

Salary: $45,940

Education: To become an operating room technician it is required to be graduated from a surgical technology program and be certified as a surgical technologist. It is also required to go to training programs for 9-15 months to become certified.

Demand in Profession: For the operating room technician it is projected that it will grow 15% in all types of surgical technician.

Reflection: I would not be interested in this career because I don’t like anything that has to do with surgery. It seems very challenging to be watching that and meanwhile preparing for it.