SURG 1050 - Introduction to Surgical Technology Credit Hours: 2.00 Prerequisites: BIOL 2400 or BIOL 2730 ; and HHSC 1700 all with grade C or better
Corequisites: SURG 1060 and SURG 1070
This course provides an introduction to the allied health profession of surgical technology. Students will learn about the history, professional associations related to, and the role and responsibilities of the surgical technologist. Additional topics include an introduction to the patient including the biopsychosocial needs of the patient, and death and dying. Ethical, moral and legal issues will be explored and examined. Students will learn about regulatory agencies, healthcare facilities, as well as departmental organization and management within the facilities. The physical environment of the operating room will be introduced, and students will learn about various emergency situations and all hazard preparation in the healthcare setting.
Billable Contact Hours: 2
Scroll down for Course Content Outline Search for Sections Transfer Possibilities Michigan Transfer Network (MiTransfer) - Utilize this website to easily search how your credits transfer to colleges and universities. OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to list duties including the role and responsibilities of the surgical technologist.
Objectives:
- Trace the historical development of surgery and surgical technology.
- Identify and interpret a job description for the surgical technologist.
- Describe the characteristics of the professional surgical technologist.
- Compare and contrast professional organizations related to the profession.
- Describe the credentialing options available to the surgical technologist.
- Describe the characteristics of the professional surgical technologist
- Compare and contrast professional organizations related to the profession.
- Describe the credentialing options available to the surgical technologist
Outcome 2:Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify various employment and career opportunities for surgical technologists.
Objectives:
- List employment opportunities for surgical technologists.
- Discuss the types of healthcare settings surgical technologists are usually employed.
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to distinguish between various surgical team members and their responsibilities.
Objectives:
- Identify members of the surgical team and their roles in the surgical setting..
- Explain and define the OR team members.
- List the duties and responsibilities of the scrub surgical technologist.
- List the duties and responsibilities of the surgical technologist in the assistant circulator role.
Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the basic physical, spiritual and cultural needs of the patient.
Objectives:
- Describe Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
- Distinguish and assess the physical, spiritual, and biopsychosocial needs of a patient.
- Distinguish and assess cultural and religious influences on the surgical patient.
- Describe the general needs associated with special populations of surgical patients.
- Evaluate perceptions regarding death and dying.
- Define the various causes of death
- Discuss the definitions of death.
- Compare and contrast responses to the process of death.
- Evaluate the various coping strategies and mechanisms.
- Analyze quality vs. quantity of life.
- Evaluate the process when a patient’s death occurs in the operating room.
- Discuss the issues regarding organ and tissue recovery from a deceased individual.
- Discuss the issues related to suicide.
Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to comprehend the physical environment of the operating room.
Objectives:
- Discuss the location of the surgical services within the healthcare facility.
- List and describe hazards to the patient in the operative environment.
- List the principles in underlying the design of the OR suite.
- Describe the basic floor plan designs for surgical services.
- Identify the role of the surgical technologist in the protection of self, patients, and others from hazards in the operative environment.
- Summarize the components that comprise the environmental systems.
- Define environmental systems, controls and environmental system safety controls in the operating room.
Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to distinguish various types of health care facilities, management and departmental organization.
Objectives:
- Identify different types of health care facilities.
- Describe a typical healthcare facility organizational structure and management
- Describe an organizational chart.
- Identify hospital departments and their relationship to surgical services.
- Identify the proper chain of command in the operating room.
- Describe the healthcare facility (HCF) departments that provide direct and indirect patient care.
- Describe the healthcare agencies that impact the provision of surgical services.
- Identify the characteristics of a successful leader.
- Discuss the functions and roles of leadership.
- Explore pathways to advance in management roles.
Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to comprehend moral, ethical, risk management and legal issues.
Objectives:
- Discuss the principles of documentation in the health care environment.
- Define and interpret ethical, moral and legal responsibilities.
- Discuss professional standards of conduct.
- Define basic concepts of ethical and moral decision making and issues.
- Demonstrate an understanding of common legal terms used in the health care environment.
- Identify patient’s rights related to healthcare.
- Review the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Patient Care Partnership
- Understand the influence of ethics in professional practice.
- Discuss examples of ethical situations and problems in the health profession.
- Discuss the key elements related to developing a surgical conscience.
- Review principles of problem-solving in ethical decision making/
- Discuss principles of patient confidentiality, including verbal and written.
- Analyze the concepts of law.
- Define the various types of legal doctrines
- Discuss the concepts that influence the standards of conduct
- Analyze the legal elements of paper documentation
- Describe types of sentinel events.
- Summarize the intentions of risk management.
Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify and employ strategies for successful and effective communication skills in the field of surgical technology.
Objectives:
- Identify and demonstrate principles of communication in the surgical setting.
- Identify the various methods of effective communication, problem solving, and conflict management and resolution.
- Define and describe types of communication relationships.
- Discuss goals of communication.
- Describe the significance of content and tone in communication.
- Discuss methods for successful surgical team participation
- Discuss strategies for the attainment of effective team goals
- Compare and contrast individual skills vs. collaboration roles and responsibilities.
- Identify the skills necessary to resolve conflict in the workplace.
- Distinguish the types of behavioral concerns found in society.
- Discuss the strategies to negotiate effective problem resolution.
- Evaluate the methods to prevent conflict in the surgical arena.
- Define professional and personal attributes
- Explain effective listening and interpersonal skills.
Outcome 9: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify all hazards - preparation and the role of various agencies and health care workers during national, manmade or combination disasters.
Objectives:
- Describe the types of disasters or public health emergencies.
- Discuss the effects of emerging infectious diseases.
- Describe the effect disasters can have on the environment.
- Describe how healthcare facilities can manage waste.
- Describe the purpose and coordination of the all-hazards systems, including the hospital incident command system, national incident management systems, and national response framework.
- Describe the components of a healthcare facility emergency operations plan.
- Explain the personal and professional responsibilities of healthcare workers when participating in the management of a disaster or hazard.
- Describe how to mitigate casualties according to specific types of hazards.
- Describe the four responses that apply to every type of disaster.
- Describe communication strategies and procedures used during a disaster.
- Describe the role of triage procedures during various disasters.
- Describe the role of the surgical technologist during triage.
- Describe the processes used to control contamination.
- Describe the support roles of the surgical technologist.
- Discuss the moral and ethical issues relevant to hazards.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (CDO)
- Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
- Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
- Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
- Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
- Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
- Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.
CDO marked YES apply to this course: Communication: YES Critical Thinking: YES Global Literacy: YES COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE Unit I. Orientation to Surgical Technology
History of surgery
Duties, roles and responsibilities of the surgical team members
Professional and personal attributes for success
Effective communication skills and teamwork
Methods of communication, problem solving and conflict management
Employability skills
Healthcare facilities , organizational structure and management
Professional regulatory agencies
Unit II. The Surgical Patient/Ethical Moral, Risk Management and Legal Issues
Legal, ethical and moral Issues
Physical, spiritual, and biopsychosocial needs of the patient
Rights of the health care consumer
Special populations patients
Elements of documentation in the health care setting
Unit III. Physical Environment and Safety Standards
Principles of operating room design
Environmental systems and controls
Environmental safety
Unit IV. All - Hazards Preparation
Disasters and public health emergencies
Disasters planning
Methods of communication
Disaster support services
Emergency operations planning Primary Faculty Shaw, Andrea Secondary Faculty Associate Dean Shaw, Andrea Dean Mirijanian, Narine
Primary Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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