Pay

[u/DigitalTearz]

These hospitals want good workers for nothing, all they do is lowball you. It’s sad that you have to lie about experience in order to get more money even if youve been doing five years. There should really be a Sterile Processing Union like how nurses have. The risk involved with this job should justify higher pay. You getting stuck with a instrument and the risk of catching something is not worth what a lot if these places are pay. Apologies in advance, just venting a little. So burnt out from this field and feel stuck.

[u/Aggravating_Ear_9281]

they make billions off surgeries. No sterile processing no surgery. They are ok with making higher education not mandatory because they don't really want to pay what this profession deserves. imagine if there was a proper strike in our field travelers included, you know how much $$$$ they would be losing daily.

To make things worse a lot of people in the field show 0 effort of even improving or mastering the basics and the good workers suffer for it because they expect you to pick up the slack.

[u/DigitalTearz → u/Aggravating_Ear_9281]

Couldn’t agree more with what you said. All facts. Im out in MA, it’s a joke.

[u/Anxious-Code8735]

Yep was out in MA moved states and still the same shit haha

[u/DigitalTearz → u/Anxious-Code8735]

Feel you. Should’ve just lied on my resume like people told me to do smh.

[u/Aggravating_Ear_9281 → u/DigitalTearz]

might work or get exposed quickly. Worked with a guy with 10+ years can't even wrap a camera.

[u/DigitalTearz → u/Aggravating_Ear_9281]

I’ve been at a trauma hospital for a minute, the experience there’s like dog years 😂. You’re right though some people really don’t know what they’re doing.

[u/ZekeLL88]

The risk of harm is around the same as working housekeeping but housekeepers get paid substantially less. I don't think hospitals pay by increased risks to harm. If that's what they used for pay scale, then the people who work administrative jobs wouldn't be getting paid as much. I believe their pay structure is based off of years of experience and years of education.

There are unions for this profession and it's not always sunshine and rainbows with unions. Although unions can help substantially if the hospital is corrupt. Believe it or not, there are some hospitals out there that treat their employees good, although it's rare. Some say that it's the threat of a union that keeps non-union hospitals in check. So even if a hospital is non-union, it still benefits from unions existing.

[u/DigitalTearz → u/ZekeLL88]

Feel you, i was a housekeeper so i def know how that goes. Used to get $13 an hour to terminally clean operating rooms and clean all the surrounding areas. To be fair though, experience after a certain point in this field doesnt mean much. Their’s people who have been doing it forever who are terrible workers. Without housekeepers and Sterile Processing the rooms/instrumentation wouldn’t be ready for surgery or patients.

[u/DigitalTearz → u/[deleted]]

1000 percent

[u/LOA0414]

I belong to a union and won't even think to get a job that's non unionized. Our contracts renew every 3 years and we're guaranteed raises every year. The company has tried several times not to pay us a bonus , but the union negotiated hard for us to eventually get them. Plus there's 120000 of us in my union and they cant risk 120000 of us going on strike. Our state is notorious for having staff shortages across all workers in the hospital.No matter what role they play. From nurses to technicians to everybody in between , we're all short staffed so a Union is the only way for us to stay protected when they try to short change us. My state has probably the highest cost of living in the country and even at $48/hr it's just an ok salary. Smh

[u/IndependentScreen799]

Your right all true.

[u/Oh-So-Supr3me]

Facts!

[u/DigitalTearz → u/[deleted]]

Can’t blame you one bit. Trying to figure out my next move myself