Surgical Technologist Registration

Washington State holds 3,937 active credentials of this type — 0.7% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Surgical Technologist Registration is a Registration — the lightest of the three main forms — the state records who is doing the work. A registration is not a statement that the holder was examined the way a licence-holder was, and the difference matters to an employer.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 74,135 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a registration differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 3,937 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Surgical Technologist Registration credential still active in Washington was first issued in 2000. 1,169 of the 3,937 were issued in 2024 or later — 29.7% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

7 of the 3,937 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.2% — and 1 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

3,937 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 3,937 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Surgical Technologist Registration expiring in 2026 — 1,185
• Surgical Technologist Registration expiring in 2027 — 2,751
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2001 — 292
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2020 — 154
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2021 — 195
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2022 — 264
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2023 — 303
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2024 — 373
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2025 — 427
• Surgical Technologist Registration first issued in 2026 — 369

Credentials of a similar size

• Certified Behavior Technician 5,091
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• Occupational Therapist License 4,611
• Dietitian Certification 4,242
• Speech Language Pathologist License 4,148
• Mental Health Counselor Associate License 4,050
• Psychologist License 3,973
• Physician and Surgeon License Interstate Medical Licensure Compact 3,928
• Osteopathic Physician & Surgeon License 3,926
• Social Worker Associate Independent Clinical License 3,736
• EMS Evaluator 3,718
• Respiratory Care Practitioner License 3,479
• Paramedic Certification 3,426

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.