Principles & Practices of ST

Catalog description

The course introduces the student to basic care practices of the operating room and will include aseptic technique and surgical case management. It covers a multitude of duties and concepts of both the scrub and circulating roles of the operating room. This also includes scrubbing, gowning, and gloving; preparing and maintaining the sterile field for surgery; methods of sterilization; all operating room (OR) equipment and its use, sponge, sharp, and instrument counts; specialty instruments and their care; surgical dressings; catheters, tubes and drains; pre-op, intra-op, and post-op duties of the surgical tech and circulating nurse like positioning prepping and draping and more.