Surgical Technologist Program

A surgical technologist program at Baptist Health System School of Health Professions prepares students for careers as part of a surgical team in hospitals and surgical centers. The program focuses on maintaining, monitoring, and enforcing the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by preoperative, surgical team, and postoperative personnel. Program courses includes: instrument and equipment sterilization and handling, surgical supplies management, wound exposure and closure, surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring, maintenance of homeostasis, and patient and team scrubbing. Get more details below including other Texas colleges that offer surgical technologist program.

The Surgical Technologist program at Baldwin Beauty Schools is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools since 2005.

Baptist Health System School of Health Professions

Also known as Baldwin Beauty Schools

3005 S Lamar, Austin, TX

If your calling is caring, then you should find out more about getting training in the lucrative healthcare industry. At Baptist Health System's School of Health Professions, training is offered in various health careers that can help you start on the path to a new career or enhance the one you already have. Degrees, certificates, and diplomas are offered in fields like nursing, surgical technology, healthcare management, and many. Some programs like MRI tech and LVN to RN are meant to build on the education that you already have.

General education classes are necessary for advanced degrees and are available completely online. Most of BSHP's classes are available online, but clinical and lab classes are held on campus in San Antonio, Texas or one of the many local hospitals that BSHP maintains a partnership with.

BSHP offers career placement services; they cannot guarantee placement, but they report an extremely high placement success rate for most programs.

Tuition varies between programs, the AA in nursing, for example, costs around $16,000 and financial aid is available for eligible students. BSHP is a private college, so tuition is the same for in and out-of-state residents.

Apply online to start your career today! http://www.bshp.edu/future-students/apply-online.

Students Enrolled in the Surgical Technologist Program

Get more details below regarding enrollment, academics, and school demographics. Baptist Health System School of Health Professions offers an associate's degree program in surgical technologist.

Students by Gender (2019)

Students by Race (2019)

Source: IPEDS Survey 2012-2020: Data obtained from the US Dept. of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Data may vary depending on school and academic year.

Career Options for Graduates

Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.

Surgical Technologists

Description

Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeon's assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.

Career Outlook & Projections ()

According to the BLS, surgical technologists employment is expected to grow at a rate of 14.8% from 2014 to 2024

Salary & Wages

• Austin-Round Rock, TX
  • Total Employment: 570
  • Average Hourly Rate: $21.77
  • Average Annual Salary: $45290

Source: Job descriptions, estimated salary and wages, and projected job growth are taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).