OB tech?

Hello,

I am finding through the course of doing my prereqs that I may want to become an ob tech. What formal training is there? How can I obtain more information about becoming one? Has anyone heard of the program through www.medtexx.com? Thanks!

Rebecca

Our OB techs are also trained in house. Their job is similar to a PCT/aide- which includes phlebotomy, but in addition, they are trained to set up a delivery table and to scrub sections and tubals.
It works out nicely in this large hospital, since in a smaller hospital where I floated to OB there was an all RN staff (previously had included LPNs before downsizing) and many of the RNs both the "older" ones who had worked in the LPN days, and the new hires were reluctant to learn to scrub leaving the OR staff covering their shifts. Since I did both maternal/child service and surgical service at one time or another in that facility I saw the problems and unhappiness caused in both departments!