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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The student is introduced to professional responsibilities regarding surgical technology. Skills are presented for interpersonal relations and communication with other health care personnel. The student learns and explores the general operating room environment.
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3.00 Credits
The student is introduced to study skills, allied health education, opportunities for career growth and development, medical ethics and professionalism, medical/surgical legal considerations, basic surgical furniture and equipment, professional growth and fundamental safety and surgical protection practices.
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3.00 Credits
This course is to develop the student surgical technologist's ability to follow directions on lab request forms, to interpret the patient's clinical history and to understand the written and spoken language of medicine. Latin and Greek word parts, medical abbreviations, positions, medicine specialties, topographic systems, operative procedures, and disease descriptions are learned.
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3.00 Credits
The structure and function of the human body is studied as it relates to surgical technology. Detailed study of the cells, tissues, integumentary, muscle, skeletal, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, reproductive, urinary systems while less emphasis is placed on the endocrine and lymphatic systems.
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3.00 Credits
The student is introduced to microorganisms, both beneficial and pathogenic. The history of microbiology is explored and the disease process is learned. The immune system is explored, and the student learns the body's immune response, the importance of immunizations to protect from disease and the body's response to wound healing.
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8.00 - 9.00 Credits
Provides clinical experience in the surgical environment with emphasis on major surgical procedures. The student will spend nine (9), eight (8)-hour days in the clinical sites.
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3.00 Credits
The student learns the principles of aseptic technique, and the process of the surgical hand scrub, gowning-gloving self and other members of the surgical team. Emphasis is placed on sterilization and disinfections.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide the student with the necessary knowledge to perform the preoperative routines related to the surgical patient. The aspects of routine positioning, prepping and the surgical patient are accomplished. Emphasis is placed on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, care of the pediatric patient, care of the patient with special needs, and care of the chronic and terminal patient.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the student to surgical instruments. The student is introduced to the name, purpose, and function of basic surgical instruments. Emphasis is placed on sutures, needles and stapling devices used on patients during surgical procedures. Surgical dressings, sponges, packings, catheters, drains, tubes, and collecting devices are explored. A detailed study of the importance of sponge, sharp and instrument counts in presented. The student surgical technologist learns to establish a sterile field and the role of the circulating person.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the student to the process of the metric system involving the surgical technologist. Pharmacological agents are studied, such as the general purposes of drugs; forms, sources of drugs; trade names of drugs; characteristics of anticoagulants, hemostatic agents, antibiotics/anti-infectives, narcotic analgesics, diuretics, steroids, oxytocics, contrast media, intravenous solutions, blood replacements and care and handling of medications. Anesthesia drugs, interactions of agents, types of anesthesia available, and how the decision of which anesthetic agent is given to the patient. Procedure for the surgical technologist to accept medications from the circulator is presented.
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