Helpful websites for the SurgTech Certifying exam?

Hello there everyone,

My name is Joel Torres, I am a current surgtech

student in Tomball College Surgical Technology Team.

I am really worried about the certifying exam, I have no

Idea how to prepare for it :(

Anybody have any Idea about websites (free, preferably)

that help me to get prepared for the certifying exam?

Thanks & Regards,

Joel Torres

hey i have a study guide that cost about 50.00 i been studying for about an year it is very hard take everything u learn in classs and prepare yourself that way there are studyguides out there beside the one that the school gives

lynnetta in Spencer, Indiana said: hey i have a study guide that cost about 50.00 i been studying for about an year it is very hard take everything u learn in classs and prepare yourself that way there are studyguides out there beside the one that the school gives

What kind of study guide do you have? Is it a book? if it is a book, what its name?

Thanks,

Joel

review guide for surgical technologist

is it for the certifying exam?

If you go to the AST website at www.ast.org/ you can buy a study guide for the test. Unless the hospitals in your area require CST I wouldn't bother I've been a Tech for 20 years and have never needed one to get a job, as long as you are enthusiastic about the job, most employers will be happy to hire you. I suggest trying the hospital where you did your clinical training.

Good Luck

Fred

Fred in San Diego, California said: If you go to the AST website at www.ast.org/ you can buy a study guide for the test. Unless the hospitals in your area require CST I wouldn't bother I've been a Tech for 20 years and have never needed one to get a job, as long as you are enthusiastic about the job, most employers will be happy to hire you. I suggest trying the hospital where you did your clinical training.

Good Luck

Fred

Thanks friend :) ! wish me luck!

In Michigan it seems like all hospitals are going toward hiring CST.

but what is the pay

What is what, pay? If your asking if getting Certified will gain you more cash per hour. In my 20 years of experience as a Surgical Technician, and in those 20 years I have travelled all over the US from Maine to California, none of the places I worked ever required you to have your CST, therefore having it wouldn't raise your rate of pay from what I experienced. Currently I work at a hospital that is goverened over by a union and I make a good rate of pay.

When I first graduated from Tech schooll, HighTech, certification wasn't required for me either. I decided not to take it, like you, because it was expensive to take it, I am a horrible test taker, I would've had to take a day off without pay to take the test and the pay wasn't any higher, so basically there were no advantages to having the certification. I have now been out of school for 6 years and since it has became pretty standard for my area to not hire surg techs that are not certified. I quit my job to take a better paying job (non scrubbing) as a sales rep and I pretty well cut myself out of scrubbing because without a certification no one will hire me now. I am looking very hard online to try to find somewhere that offers a refresher course so I can prepare for the exam but I sure wish I had went ahead and taken it fresh out of school since it is now almost impossible to get a job without it. I do miss scrubbing and feel like my options are pretty limited now without my certification. I have really cut myself short on this deal.