SURTEC-CERT - Surgical Technology

Achieve cultural competence

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

Develop specialized skills

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

Develop and practice effective communication skills

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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