Endoscopy Technicians

Overview

Endoscopy Technicians has a national median salary of $48,430 per year, with +4.8% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a high school diploma or equivalent as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Maintain a sterile field to provide support for physicians and nurses during endoscopy procedures. Prepare and maintain instruments and equipment. May obtain specimens.

Work Values

• Support
• Relationships
• Achievement

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Clean, disinfect, or calibrate scopes or other endoscopic instruments according to manufacturer recommendations and facility standards.
• Collect specimens from patients, using standard medical procedures.
• Perform safety checks to verify proper equipment functioning.
• Maintain or repair endoscopic equipment.
• Assist physicians or registered nurses in the conduct of endoscopic procedures.

Work Activities

• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Assisting and Caring for Others
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Documenting/Recording Information
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Training and Teaching Others

Detailed Work Activities

• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a high school diploma or equivalent as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a bachelor's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Bachelor's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a high school diploma or equivalent.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Endoscopy Technicians:

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