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$32.00 an hour?? thats terrible. ive been a travel scrub tech for 5 years now. as a tech i have made more than that. the RNs in my agency wont take a job for less than $50.00 an hour you need to travel. if anything, it will force the hospitals to pay their staff more

from what i can see, our charting is all on the computer. lets be honest the computer still takes longer to chart. the RN does all that while us techs get all the supplies for the sterile team. there are some days that im glad im circulating and not scrubbing. both have their good points

yeah, here in south dakota, a CST can circulate legally. in fact the board runner will assign quailifed tech to a room to circulate. some of the techs go way beyond their scope of practice an inject lidocaine!!and the surgeons tell them to do it!! i dont agree with this at all

we have two urologists at my facility. one likes us to test the balloon, and the other doc hates the idea.

yeah we use the OSI at my facility too. theres lots of pieces and frustrating at times. we seem to only use it for DHS hips lately, so we just leave already set up. haha

lol joe! hey ive been a tech at my hospital for 3 years now. its a fairly small hospital, and we're so short staffed that we have crosstrained house keepers so they can run and get stuff for us