OR Roles
The number of roles a Surgical Technologist can fulfill.
What is 3?
(What are they?)
The professional organization for surgical technologists.
What is AST?
Association of Surgical Technologists.
The year AORN recommended the formation of AORT.
What is 1969?
The 4 classifications of surgical intervention.
What are emergent, urgent, elective, and optional?
The colors of the AST logo.
What are blue and black?
Organizes the mayo stand and back table for use during the procedure.
Who is the scrubbed surgical technologist?
Administers the national certification exam.
What is NBSTSA?
Father of modern surgery. Used carbolic acid as technique for antiseptic surgery.
Who is Joseph Lister?
The 4 components of communication.
What are sender, message, receiver, and feedback?
Monitors vital signs during the procedure.
Who is the anesthesiologist/CRNA?
Provides continuing education credits (CE's) for surgical technologists.
What is AST?
The first great anatomist, biology was made to serve theology.
Who is Galen?
Exempt from paying federal and state income tax.
What is not for profit hospital?
Conducts the preoperative patient interview.
Who is the circulating nurse?
Promotes public health through regulation of food safety, medications, and medical devices, etc.
What is the FDA?
Invented the smallpox vaccine.
Who is Edward Jenner?
Pathway or program of upward movement within an organization.
What is clinical ladder?
Maintains the patient's operative record.
Who is the circulating nurse?
Promotes worldwide wellness and infection control.
What is the WHO?
(World Health Organization)
The father of plastic surgery.
Who is Susruta?
Department responsible for preoperative diagnostic studies.
What is Diagnostic Imaging?