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Sep 28, 2024
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SUR 231C - Surgical Technology Clinical 1
Credits: 6
360 Clinical Hours
Prerequisites: SUR 120
Co-requisites: SUR 230
Description
This course allows a student to transfer and apply theoretical knowledge to the clinical setting. Students receive concentrated exposure to surgical procedures. This course requires a per credit health career fee; check the tuition and fee schedule for the current rate.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Employ a thorough knowledge of aseptic technique in the surgical suite.
- Demonstrate the method of creating a sterile field by draping back table, Mayo stand and other fields while maintaining good principles of asepsis.
- Assess the surgeon’s needs during minor procedures.
- Function alone as a scrub technologist on minor procedures.
- Identify one’s own breaks in aseptic technique and the breaks of other team members and be able to rectify them.
- Demonstrate the correct manner of passing instruments.
- Assess the surgeon’s needs during major procedures having had previous experience with that particular procedure.
- Demonstrate the initiation and execution of sponge, needle and instrument counts for all procedures.
- Use basic instruments appropriately during the surgical procedure.
- Apply principles of safety to every aspect of the clinical environment.
Listed Topics
- Scrubbing
- Circulating
- Safety
- Counting instruments and sponges
- Aseptic technique
- Professionalism
- Prioritization
Reference Materials
Textbooks, library resources, journals, videotapes and CD’s in the SUR lab and lab equipment.
Approved By: Johnson, Alex Date Approved: 05/19/2010
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