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Surgical Technology

Premiere Career College

  • 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.
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    • Job Description
      Teach courses in health specialties, such as veterinary medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, therapy, laboratory technology, and public health.
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Written Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Written Expression
      • Deductive Reasoning
      • Inductive Reasoning
      • Speech Clarity
    • 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.
      Salary and Wages

      Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metropolitan Division

      • Total Employment: 2,450
      • Average Annual Salary: $45,710
      • Average Hourly Rate: $21.97

      Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Metropolitan Division

      • Total Employment: 820
      • Average Annual Salary: $46,770
      • Average Hourly Rate: $22.48
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 86,197
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 107,274
      • Percent Job Growth: 24.45%
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Speech Recognition
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    Awarded Degrees and Program Completion Details
    Surgical Technology
     Total
    Overall
    All Students59
     
    By Gender
    Male25
    Female34
     
    By Race
    Non-Resident Alien-
    American Indian-
    Black2
    Asian19
    Hispanic31
    White7
    Unknown-
     
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