SURG 1200 - Surgical Clinical 1

Credit Hours: 8.00

Objectives:

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

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

Objectives:

1. Display key elements of a surgical conscience.
2. Articulate OR policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.
3. Apply safety measures.
4. Perform surgical TIME OUT.
5. Perform surgical counts.

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

Objectives:

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

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

Objectives:

1. Place supplies in OR
2. Open sterile supplies.
3. Demonstrate hand wash, scrub, gowning and gloving.
4. Perform set up of the sterile field.
5. Monitor the sterile field.

Outcome 5:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to prepare the OR for the needs of various surgical procedures.

Objectives:

1. Assemble or check case cart
2. Gather items for the procedure.
3. Place supplies in OR
4. Open sterile supplies.
5. Desribe how various supplies and equipment are used during the surgical procedure.
6. Discuss testing, placement and types and preparation of special equipment.
7. Perform set up of the sterile field.
8. Maintain aseptic technique.

Outcome 6:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to anticipate the surgeon’s needs before, during, and after surgery.

Objectives:

1. Check surgeon’s preference card.
2. Verify supplies and equipment needed for the surgical procedure.

Outcome 7:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a surgeon’s preference card.

Objectives:

1. Maintain log cards of surgical procedures performed.
2. Describe the key elements of a surgeon’s preference card.

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

Objectives:

1. Interpret OR records, documentation and other forms.
2. State the purpose of good documentation.

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

Objectives:

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

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