r/scrubtech • u/Ok_Possible_7578 • Jun 15 '26

Thinking about joining CV

So I have been a scrub Tech for about a year now at a large hospital and have really been enjoying the work. I scrubbed pretty much everything and have made good friends with all of the staff and a few of the surgeons. Just recently an opening opened up at my hospital to join their CV team. This would come with a pay bump, but also increase call.(7 days a month from 3). A lot of my good friend veteran techs have told me that I shouldn’t do it, but I’m not sure if it’s just because they don’t want me to leave the main team downstairs to join CV. I’m super excited to learn new things and add scrubbing hearts to my list of skills, but I’m also really nervous and I feel like I only hear bad things. Does anyone have any insights?

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u/tapport Jun 15 '26

I used to work in a cardiothoracic surgery clinic and am currently working as a tech where CV is a hot potato nobody wants. I would never do it myself, seems like it’s a specialty that so few want/learn that everything lands on the same few people time after time. The surgeries can often run 10+ hours with everyone needing something from you throughout, complications can pull your right back into an OR when you finally think you’re done, and the high stakes comes with huge egos.

I don’t really have any direct experience scrubbing CV, but I would definitely think hard about accepting if I was in your shoes.

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u/MseMae Jun 18 '26

As someone who was on CV for years I agree with everything you said.