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Is an operating room nurse a surgical technologist? Is it the same career?


Is an operating room nurse a surgical technologist? Is it the same career?

Surgical technologist use to be called Operating Room Technician. Sometime the ST is called a scrub nurse. Most of their training is limited to working in the operating room, but they can find jobs working with surgeons, in central supply at the hospital, sales reps., labor and delivery, working for endoscopy companies, along with working in the OR.

No. The technologist is much more limited in education and in workplace capabilities. The OR nurse is an RN who can work in any area of the surgical suite.

No. An operating room nurse was first a nurse and then specialized in being an OR nurse.
A surgical technologist is trained to work solely in the OR.
Like many jobs in nursing our field touches on many different things.
Although these two primarily work in the same arena, the OR, and do typically similar tasks, they are definitely not the same.
Nurses are skilled in many different things and are more versitile than a technician of any sort.

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