| A | B |
|---|
| Optimal Health | best physical and mental condition you can have |
| disease | failure to counteract stimuli, organisms, stresses |
| surgical intervention | entering body by incision/MIS for therapy or diagnosis |
| indications for surgery | reconstruction, restore function, treat and relieve |
| risks of surgery | allergy, hemorrhage, cardiac arrest, shock, infection |
| attributes of surg tech | efficient, flexible, accountable, able to communicate, humor, stamina, honesty |
| Profession | defines purpose, sets standards, does research |
| Accountability | answerable for actions |
| standard | statement to measure performance |
| reasons for standardization | easier to teach and learn, increase speed, check |
| Allied health professionals | Health care related |
| Places for allied health education | college, technical school, hospital based, military |
| Standards for Surg Techs | teamwork, plan and prepare, apply basic knowledge, respect rights |
| base for clinical competencies | education, experience, time in service |
| accreditation | recognition for specific standards met by institution |
| licensure | government approval after testing to practice |
| registration | govenment regulation of practice |
| certification | voluntary recognition of knowledge by testing |
| scope of practice | what you can and cannot do |
| JCAHO | Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
| kinds of performance evaluations | benchmarking, peer review |
| Sentinel Events | an event that involves serious injury or death of a patient |
| non sterile team members | anesthesia and circulator |
| sterile team members | surgeon, first assistant, scrub person |
| duty of surg tech | prepare sterile field, anticipate needs of surgeon, aseptic tech |
| duty of circulator | meet needs ot patient, sterile team, anesthesia |
| duties of sterile team members | scrub, gown, glove, maintain sterile technique |
| duties of unsterile team members | work out of sterile area, maintain sterile technique, provide direct patient care, handle unsterile supplies |
