SURG 1300 - Surgical Clinical 2

Objectives:

1. Develop essential skills required of a surgical technologist.
2. Perform the duties and responsibilities of the student scrub surgical technologist.
3. Demonstrate awareness of professional obligations to the patient and surgical team members.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, each student will be able to practice safe patient care.

Objectives:

1. Demonstrate awareness of a surgical conscience.
2. Demonstrate awareness of OR policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.
3. Demonstrate the awareness of safety measures.
4. Perform surgical TIME OUT.
5. Perform surgical counts.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, each student will be able to practice safety techniques in protecting self and other team members.

Objectives:

1. Demonstrate when to seek help.
2. Demonstrate responsibility for personal actions.
3. Demonstrate proper techniques in handling sharps.
4. Understand accountability for ones actions and to others.
5. Demonstrate proper ways to pass various specialty instruments to the surgeon.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, each student will be able to maintain aseptic technique.

Objectives:

1. Place supplies in OR, open sterile supplies.
2. Scrub, gown and glove.
3. Perform set up of the sterile field and maintain aseptic technique.
4. Monitor the sterile field.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, each student will be able to select appropriate instrumentation, supplies, equipment, and perform setups of assigned surgical procedures.

Objectives:

1. Assemble or check case cart, gather items for the procedure.
2. Place supplies in OR, open sterile supplies.
3. Identify various supplies and equipment and state how they are used during the surgical procedure.
4. Discuss testing, placement and types and preparation of special equipment.
5. Perform set up of the sterile field and maintain aseptic technique.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, each student will be able to display skill in anticipating the surgeon’s needs before, during, and after surgery.

Objectives:

1. Check surgeons preference card.
2. Anticipate needs of the surgeon.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course students will be able to create a surgeons preference card.

Objectives:

1. Maintain log cards of surgical procedures performed.

Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course students will be able to conform to OR standards, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Objectives:

1. Demonstrate awareness of OR records, documentation and other forms.
2. Understand and state the purpose of good documentation.

Outcome 9: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the principles of tissue exposure and wound management.

Objectives:

1. Identify criteria used to select items to provide tissue exposure.
2. Identify and describe use of sutures and needles for procedures.