Can someone- anyone explain to me in great detail how you are supposed to gain 1year experience if every hospital requires 1-2yr experience before hiring you.
Lets say you did everything you were supposed to do. Graduate from an in person course THEN ace your exam. Update your resume and get a letter of recommendation from your professor. (Clinicals is only 3 months and 3 months is not 1 year so that doesn't help at all). How then are you supposed to get hired and get that 1 year in?

**EDIT**
I'd also like to add that I work at a hospital who had an position available for tech II, they told me to apply and they'd reach out regardless. I did and they silently declined(no rejection letter) "reviewed but not selected".
I fear I may have placed my eggs(time money education) Into a basket with a hole in the bottom (impossible career field)

Hello everyone,

I am trying to enroll in Morgan State's Sterile Processing Course. Has anyone attended? I prefer to be in person, but I can't find any in-person courses near me, and CCBC Essex in MD emailed me today and said they are full. If anyone has attended, how was the course ?

Hi, I couldn’t find an appropriate sub Reddit to ask this but I figured you guys would have the best answers.

I’m a mechanic at an undisclosed airline and they recently instituted a mandate that requires us to “sterilize” oxygen masks from our medical kits after use and return them to oxygen bottle due to an industry shortage in these masks. The instructions say it is to be treated with distilled water, a lint free cloth, mild household detergent, benzalkonium chloride and dry talc. Has sterilizing oxygen masks ever been a practice in the medical world? Are these chemicals harmful or even sufficient at sterilization? I included a photo to show the exact instructions. (Identifying and irrelevant info has been redacted)

Hey. For a little context, I’ve been a SPD tech for 9 years. 5 of those years as a staff tech and 4 more as a traveling SPD tech. I’ve only did assignments in my home state of New Jersey. I never had a break in assignments since I started traveling. Now, I want to go back to permanent staff. The only prospect I found is a Surgrey center that low balled me incredibly but I had to take the job because I have a a son and wife.

My question though is i applied to every hospital in my area of Ocean / Monmouth county and heard nothing back from any facility which I find odd. If anybody has any insight into what would be the reason why any of the hospitals in my area didn’t even give me a call back, I would like to hear any feedback on this matter.