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SURTEC-CERT - Surgical Technology

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Formal Title

Surgical Technology

Degree Type

Certificate

Overview

The Lasell University Surgical Technology Certificate is a twelve-month, full-time program 36-credit certificate program that trains you to become an entry-level Surgical Technologist. 

The mission of the Lasell University Surgical Technologist Certificate program is to educate competent and compassionate healthcare professionals to be responsive to culturally diverse populations and to communicate effectively with patients and other healthcare professionals. Students. 

What Is A Surgical Technologist?

Surgical technologists are healthcare professionals who support surgeons, anesthesiologists, registered nurses and other surgical personnel in an operating room to deliver optimal patient care. Essential members of the surgical team, surgical technologists engage in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative job duties that include preparing the operating room, securing supplies, setting up equipment and instruments, anticipating the surgeon’s needs during the surgical procedure, passing instruments, fluids and supplies, and monitoring and assessing room conditions. Surgical Technologists are responsible for maintaining the sterile field and being constantly vigilant that all members of the operating room team adhere to the aseptic technique. 

What You Will Learn

The Surgical Technology Program at Lasell University is a hybrid program that includes courses on-campus, online and clinical rotation.  The program offers students a comprehensive educational experience inclusive of didactic, psychomotor, and clinical education in a state-of-the-art Science and Technology Center on the Lasell University campus. The application of laboratory skills will occur in a clinical setting at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and hospitals statewide affiliated with the Mass General Brigham Integrated Healthcare System.

  • Basic science, medical terminology and technology

  • Operating room safety, policy and procedure

  • Principles of asepsis and sterilization techniques

  • Facilitate physician's invasive and non-invasive surgical performance

Mission Statement 

The mission of the Lasell University Surgical Technology Program is to prepare entry-level Surgical Technologists who are competent in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains to enter the profession while providing a student-centered learning environment that fosters the academic, professional, and personal growth of students. 

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Achieve cultural competence

Objective

Identify and address behavioral, social, and cultural factors that impact individual and population health and health disparities; attain comprehensive ethical, legal, moral, and cultural awareness as they relate to the surgical technologist’s ability to provide; patient care and how this awareness fosters cooperation and success among members of the surgical team; engage in cultural learning; develop effective strategies to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds

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Develop specialized skills

Objective

Utilize higher order thinking to perform the duties of the surgical technologist.

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Develop and practice effective communication skills

Objective

Develops effective communication strategies utilizing appropriate communication mediums; engage in digital literacy to effectively locate, use, curate, and disseminate information and resources relevant to surgical technology; connect, engage and share information with other health care professionals; communicate ideas and findings persuasively in written, oral, and visual form

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To provide students with a background in basic sciences and mastery of aseptic technique, surgical skills, and a developed surgical conscience as established in the most current AST Core Curriculum Standards

Objective

Understand didactic content in topics areas that include: (1) Health Sciences, (2) Professional Practice, (3) Technological Science Concepts, and (4) Surgical Technology; apply didactic knowledge to the care of the perioperative patient as it relates to the role of the Surgical Technologist; utilize didactic knowledge to attend to the physical, psychological and social needs of the patient; demonstrate recognition for continuing education to enhance their professional and personal growth to keep up with advances in medicine; apply medical terminology to communicate clearly and effectively with patients, families, and medical professionals; qualify to sit for the NBSTSA Certification Exam.

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To instruct professional techniques which will promote mastery and independent practice of clinical skills.

Objective

Demonstrate proficiency in laboratory skills in, (1) Preoperative case management, (2) Intraoperative case management, (3) Postoperative case management, (4) Assistant Circulator, and (5) Sterile processing; demonstrate perioperative technical and clinical skills in a safe and effective manner; exhibit safe practice methods involving preparation routines of the intraoperative environment, patient positioning, and emergency procedures; display and incorporate aseptic principles in the intraoperative setting; engage in the scrub role in a variety of procedures in surgical specialty areas according to hospital policy.

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To develop surgical technologists who practice standards in a professional manner to provide patients with quality care.

Objective

Demonstrate professional practice standards while engaged in clinical education and surgical rotation case requirements; show the importance of and the ability to model the professional attributes of the Surgical Technologist, including the maintenance of a strict ‘surgical conscience’; engage in dependability, honesty, and with integrity in clinical practice; demonstrate accountability in optimal evidence- based practice