SUR 130 - Intro to Surgical Technology

1.  Interpret the general role of the surgical technologist. 
   1. Examine the historical development of surgery and surgical technology.
   2. Characterize members of the surgical team and their role.
   3. Examine the concept of teamwork during the surgical procedure.
   4. Describe various roles of the surgical technologist.
   5. Explain the job description for the surgical technologist.
   6. Characterize different types of health care facilities.
   7. Assess a typical hospital organizational structure.
   8. Compare hospital departments and their relationship to surgical services.
2. Evaluate standards of conduct.
   1. Analyze major concepts in professional practice law.
   2. Examine the legal responsibilities of the surgical technologist and other surgical team members.
   3. Describe the American Hospital Associations Patient’s Bill of Rights.
   4. Assess the need for professional liability insurance policies.
   5. Characterize key elements to developing a surgical conscience.
   6. Assess the resources that aid the surgical technologist in interpreting and following professional standards of conduct.
   7. Demonstrate an increased sensitivity to the influence of ethics in professional practice.
   8. Characterize the role of morality during ethical decision making.
   9. Compare examples of moral principles, bioethics and problems in the health professions.
   10. Apply principles of problem solving in ethical decision making.
   11. Examine scope of practice issues as they relate to surgical technology.
   12. Assess the role of the risk management department and their role in the promotion of patient and personnel safety practices.
3. Assess the psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and family. 
   1. Examine the physical, spiritual and psychosocial needs of a patient.
   2. Determine the patient’s response to illness and hospitalization.
   3. Compare and contrast the cultural and religious influences on the surgical patient.
   4. Differentiate surgical care considerations for pediatric patients and patients that are obese, diabetic, pregnant, immunocompromised, disabled, geriatric or experiencing trauma.
   5. Compare and contrast the surgical care of age specific and the unique physical or psychosocial needs for the special population patent.
   6. Differentiate the perioperative, intraoperative and postoperative considerations for pediatric patents and patients who are obese, diabetic, pregnant, immunocompromised, disabled, geriatric or traumatized patient.
4. Assess the physical environment and the safety standards as they are related to the operative environment. 
   1. Describe hazards (physical, biological and chemical) to the patient and personnel in the operative environment.
   2. Review agencies that provide standards and guidelines for safe practice.
   3. Describe examples of hospital departments as they relate to surgical services in the care of the surgical patient.
   4. Compare the types of basic operating suite designs.
   5. Identify the physical components and furniture of the operative suite.
   6. Examine the type of air-handling system required in the OR and the temperature and humidity required to maintaining a sterile field.
   7. Characterize decontamination procedures, traffic patterns and routines required in the operative environment.
   8. Assess the working environment of the operating room.
5. Critique biomedical science. 
   1. Elaborate on basic word processing, Internet and e-mail functions.
   2. Discuss the basic principles of electricity and their application in the operating room.
   3. Compare the principles of physics to safe patient care practices in the operating room.
   4. Interpret the geometrical concepts of robotics and the mechanisms of the robotic system.
   5. Characterize the principles of robotics to safe patient care practice in the operating room.
6. Evaluate surgical pharmacology and anesthesia. 
   1. Perceive general terminology and abbreviations associated with pharmacology and anesthesia.
   2. Compare actions, uses and modes of administration of drugs and anesthesia agents used on a surgical patient.
   3. Predict possible side effects and contraindications for use of drugs and anesthesia agents.
   4. Elaborate on the factors that influence anesthesia in the surgical patient.
   5. Develop safe practice in transferring drugs or solutions to the sterile field.
   6. Compare and contrast the roles of surgical technologist in the scrub role and the circulator during administration of anesthesia.
   7. Explain the precautions in identifying drugs and solutions in the operating room.
   8. Elaborate on the equipment used as an adjunct to anesthesia.