Operating Room Technicians

Duties & Responsibilities:
An operating room technicians assist in preparing operating rooms for surgery. They are responsible for having surgical instruments, sterile bandages and linens, needed fluids and other equipment that is need for a surgery. During a surgery, an operating room technician may help the doctors by passing them the tools needed during the surgery. They also take specimens to hospitals laboratories for analysis. An operating room technician is alson called a surgical technician or a surgical technologist.

Average Salary: $16,000 - $22,000

Educational Requirements: 
To become an operating room technicians, it is required to have a high school diploma or GED certified. You need 2 years of training in medical terminology, physiology, and sterilization methods. Ater the training you msut pass an examination by the Association of Surgical Technologists to become certified.



Reflection:
I think become an operating room technician would be a good thing to do. I think its an easy job keeping things in order  and be really organized and it will be easier for the doctors to get done with the surgury. i would like to become an operating room technician.