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What defines your sterile field? |
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| Anything blue- if you aren’t dressed in blue you are not part of it. Anastehsia and circulator would not be sterile. |
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| President, head of the hospital or facility |
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| Everything that takes place in the surgery room- Timing, surgeries, schedule etc |
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| What is taking place directly within the operating department, don’t do much on the outside, manage and oversea employees and situations that take place |
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What is the role of the Circulator? |
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Usually an RN, Non-sterile
Looks out for the health of the patinent, Communicator between patient family and surgeon, charting, get supplies and opens them once the procedure has started. |
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| In the sterile role, getting supplies ready and open and making sure everything works. Once you are in a sterile role, you must remain within the sterile role. |
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Role of the Board of Directors? |
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| They oversee the CEO, Set a philosophy for the overall hospital, Mission statement, etc |
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What is a job description and its characteristics? |
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| - Written summary of duties, list responsibilities and requirements. |
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| Facilities that do not make profit, or if they do, the money is put back into the hospital- St. John, St Francis |
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| (Privately owned) Tulsa spine and specialty Operate to make money, don’t take people without insurance, don’t provide full services |
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Tax supported facilities? |
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| - Supported by the government. like the VA Veterans hospital |
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The term ambulatory as it relates to hospital stay? |
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| Outpatient Patient comes in that morning and goes home- Short stay, less than 23 hours. |
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| Non-sterile, in charge of keeping patient asleep and comfortable. PA, CRNA |
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What does preoperative mean? |
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| Everything that happens before surgery- start IV’s, paperwork, preps for surgery. Whatever needs to be done |
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| Everything in the operating room sweet, everything that takes place during their stay in the OR. |
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| - Everything that takes place after surger- recovery, pain management, recovering from anesthetic, make sure your breathing okay, |
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| - Covers all of it- from the moment you walk in the door until you leave to go home- includes- Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. |
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| surgery used to find problems |
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| - to relieve or alleviate symptoms- create better quality of life, not fix problem |
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| - Procedure that will regain health and strength. |
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Who typically opens the sterile supplies before surgery? |
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What about after the surgery has started? |
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Departments/ people who are not part of the core surgical team? |
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| Pathologist- lab, Radiologist- look at x-rays, make sure nothing is left behind makes official document that everything is in place, pharmacist-medications, specialty drugs that are not kept in surgery, Medical Records,- anything done in the hospital ends up here, you might need old medical records, housekeeping- reordering supplies etc. – These people are also considered “ indirect Patient Care” |
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| Assosiation of Surgical Technology- Its vision is enhancing the profession to ensure quality patient care |
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| What does NBSTSA stand for? |
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| National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting |
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What is NBSTSA do for surgical Technologists?
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| In charge of creating and maintaining the surgical technologist certification test. |
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| Accrediting Agency for Surgical Technologists |
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| Covers education for the surgical tech programs and continuing education. |
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