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Certificate of Completion
#38102
This certificate prepares students for entry-level positions within the surgical technology field. Students will learn about the scope of practice, tasks, and responsibilities of the surgical technician, universal safety precautions and personal protective equipment, and the classifications, uses, storing, preparation, handling, and distributing of surgical instruments and supplies. Topics also include learning about the operating room environment, asepsis and sterile technique, biomedical and chemical hazards, and surgical technology career research and development.聽聽
91直播 Learning Outcomes
- Students will be prepared聽to enter into entry-level medical surgical technician jobs.
- Students will demonstrate job readiness skills.
- Students will progress through the health career ladder by enrolling in further health career programs.
搁别惫颈别飞听Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)聽for this program.
Required Courses
- Surgical Technologists
Surgical Technologists
SOC Career Code: 29-2055.00Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.
Typical Hourly Salary$29.35The figure above is based off a percentile of 25 percent.
All job data and figures based on a 100 mile radius from Mt. 91直播Top Entry-Level EducationChart Legend- Doctoral Degree Or More
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Associate's Degree
- Some College
- Certificate
- High School Diploma Or Less
Median Salary Earnings$78,395.20Annual Job Openings851Openings are regional vacancies due to growth and turnover in this career.All job data and figures based on a 100 mile radius from Mt. 91直播
Historical Wages - Surgical Assistants
Surgical Assistants
SOC Career Code: 29-9093.00Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons. May, in accordance with state laws, help surgeons to make incisions and close surgical sites, manipulate or remove tissues, implant surgical devices or drains, suction the surgical site, place catheters, clamp or cauterize vessels or tissue, and apply dressings to surgical site.
Typical Hourly Salary$20.35The figure above is based off a percentile of 25 percent.
All job data and figures based on a 100 mile radius from Mt. 91直播Top Entry-Level EducationChart Legend- Doctoral Degree Or More
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Associate's Degree
- Some College
- Certificate
- High School Diploma Or Less
Median Salary Earnings$46,704.64Annual Job Openings78Openings are regional vacancies due to growth and turnover in this career.All job data and figures based on a 100 mile radius from Mt. 91直播
Historical Wages - Medical Equipment Preparers
Medical Equipment Preparers
SOC Career Code: 31-9093.00Prepare, sterilize, install, or clean laboratory or healthcare equipment. May perform routine laboratory tasks and operate or inspect equipment.
Typical Hourly Salary$22.11The figure above is based off a percentile of 25 percent.
All job data and figures based on a 100 mile radius from Mt. 91直播Top Entry-Level EducationChart Legend- Doctoral Degree Or More
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Associate's Degree
- Some College
- Certificate
- High School Diploma Or Less
Median Salary Earnings$59,778.49Annual Job Openings1,166Openings are regional vacancies due to growth and turnover in this career.All job data and figures based on a 100 mile radius from Mt. 91直播
Historical Wages
- Surgical Technologists