STCC Surgical Technology Degree, Major and Program Information

Highest Degree Offered: Associate's
Campus Location: Large City
Tenure System: Has Tenure System
Students Enrollment: 5,000 - 9,999
Classification: Associates--Public Urban-Serving Multicampus
Size & Residential Status: Medium Two-Year

A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to maintain, monitor, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by preoperative, surgical team, and postoperative personnel. Includes instruction in instrument and equipment sterilization and handling; surgical supplies management; wound exposure and closure; surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring; maintenance of hemostasis; and patient and team scrubbing. Find colleges offering surgical technology degree.

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Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
Job Description
Teach courses in health specialties, such as veterinary medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, therapy, laboratory technology, and public health. Read more about postsecondary health specialties teachers in our career profile section.
Surgical Technologists
Job Description
Assist 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 surgeon's assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments. Read more about surgical technologists in our career profile section.
Projections
- Total Employment (2008): 91,500
- Total Employment Projected (2018): 114,700
- Percent Job Growth: 23.20%