becoming a surgical technician

Sometimes life takes you to school when you least expect it. 

A strikeout on the softball field teaches you about resiliency and bouncing back after adversity. Your first kiss is the first in a series of fun and sometimes frustrating lessons about loving, losing, and learning to love again. An all-you-can-eat buffet lets you learn the hard way about the downside of overeating. 

You never know when and where you're going to learn invaluable life lessons - unless you enroll in a surgical tech program. Surgical tech programs are renowned for teaching both tangible and intangible life lessons. 

The tangible lessons you'll learn are about the job skills needed to succeed in a surgical tech program:

  • Preparing operating rooms and suites for surgical procedures
  • Properly sterilizing equipment and stocking the rooms for surgery
  • Preparing patients for surgery
  • Working closely with surgeons during surgical procedures 
  • Ensuring that operating rooms and surgical suits are sterile environments

These are the lessons you probably expect to learn from your surgical tech program. But what are often equally invaluable are the lessons you don't expect to learn - the intangible life lessons.  

Here's a look at five of the invaluable life lessons you'll learn when you study to become a surgical tech:

Lesson One: The Importance of Precision

It's been said that close only matters in horseshoes and hand grenades, and this is especially true in the surgical suite.

Surgical procedures require precision. Everything must be coordinated - from the way the patients' bodies are prepared for the procedure to the sterilization of the instruments to which instruments are used when. Surgical tech school will teach you how to organize, plan, and anticipate problems that could come up. In other words, it will teach you the importance of precision. 

This is a lesson that could pay off in both your career and personal life, as you will discover just how much you can achieve when you pay attention to precision. 

Lesson Two: The Importance of Teamwork

You're strong. You're independent. You can accomplish anything you set your mind to accomplishing. 

But imagine how much more you can do as part of a team. 

Surgical techs work with doctors and nurses on a daily basis. Each member of the team plays an important role in making sure the patients experience the best possible outcomes. It is a truly amazing and rewarding experience to be part of a team that is enhancing and sometimes saving lives. And it's even more amazing when you realize that those lives would probably not be improved if not for the team.

Your surgical tech program could open your eyes to both your individual potential and how your skills and knowledge are important to the surgical team. 

Lesson Three: The Power of Positive Thinking

There is no doubt that surgical techs often find themselves working in stressful situations. After all, patients are often ill, vulnerable, and hoping that their surgeries will allow them to live better lives. It can be overwhelming.

Unless you've learned to be positive. 

One of the best life lessons you'll learn in your surgical tech program is that amazing things are possible if you remain positive. And staying positive in the face of adversity is easier to do if you are well-prepared. 

You will learn to prepare. You will learn to be confident. And you will learn that the best outcomes often occur when everyone goes into a procedure with positive attitudes. 

Lesson Four: Confidence

No matter what you do in your life, you will do it better if you are confident.  

This is a fact that has been demonstrated time and time again by people in every profession - and surgical tech school teaches you to be confident. 

By the time you finish your program, you will have the skills and knowledge to walk into a hospital and be part of a team that changes lives for the better. You will know how to prepare patients, operating rooms and instruments for surgery. You will know your role with precision. 

And you will have confidence. 

Chances are good that you your professional confidence will carry over into your personal life, making it easier for you to do everything just a little bit better. 

Lesson Five: The Satisfaction of Being in Demand

There is nothing quite like the feeling of being wanted, and surgical techs are in demand. 

surgical tech growthBetween now and 2022, the need for surgical techs across the country is expected to grow by 30 percent (according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). 

That means you will likely have a lot of good, quality job prospects. And there is nothing better than knowing that if you work hard in surgical tech school, you will be in demand. 

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If you are ready to explore a career as a surgical tech and learn tangible and intangible life lessons, contact ECPI University and ask how you could earn an Associate of Applied Science in Surgical Technology in just 1.5 years!  It could be the Best Decision You Ever Make!

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