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Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) Reviews
What is it like working as a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)?
April 2016
Make sure you can separate work &home.
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
Make sure you have a work/home balance.
February 2016
That you will never know everything.
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
Calm down. You will be overwhelmed for awhile. It will take a solid year for you to really start to feel comfortable and that you will be able to handle whatever comes at you.
Relax, ask questions, always be respectful to your surgeons, no matter how disrespectful they may be to you.
Always check your ego and attitude at the door and always offer to help. This will take you far in wherever you choose to work.
January 2016
Challenging.
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
Pros: Completing surgery and feeling accomplished when I knew what a specific doctor liked and wanted.
Cons: Doctors expect you to know what they like even though you may do the same surgery several different ways with other doctors.
Their level of patience is often very low.
August 2015
Education.
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
I wish I had my associate degree because it opens more possibilities as well as allows you to make more.
August 2015
Surgery will go on without you (me)
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
No matter what you think you know, you could always ask questions and learn.
June 2015
Flexibility, co workers, doctors.
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
Pros: Flexibility, co workers, doctors.
Cons: Pay.
June 2015
Good with the Bad.
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST):
Pros: I love being able to successfully assist with a procedure and be a part of a team that facilitates efficiency and accuracy for the benefit of patient care and saticfaction.
Cons: Surgeons just don't understand what it takes to get a surgery started and how many different ways there are to do one surgery.
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