What are the three stages of surgical case management?
100
Responsibility for your own actions.
What is accountability?
100
The nonprofit professional membership organization for surgical technologists and surgical assistants.
What is Association of Surgical Technologists (AST)?
100
This organization establishes the hospital's philosophy and policies.
What is the Board of Directors or Trustees?
100
This organization used nonphysician and non-nursing assistance since the beginning of surgical history.
What is the military?
200
This phase begins when the procedure is terminated.
What is the post-operative phase?
200
Professional and personal honesty.
What is integrity?
200
The federal organization that is dedicated to protecting the health of workers by establishing standards that address issues related to safety in the work place.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
200
This is the person that oversees the day to day activity in the surgical unit.
What is the head (charge) nurse?
200
Modern surgical technology developed into the scrub role began in Britain and the US after this.
What is World war II (WWII)?
300
The duties are to maintain a sterile field including establishing a neutral zone.
What is one of the duties of the surgical tech during the intraoperative phase?
300
Empathy, devotion, and vocation.
What is Dedication?
300
An independent nonprofit national organization that develops standards and performance criteria for health care organizations and accredits over 17, 000 health care organizations in the US.
What is The Joint "Commission?
300
Patient care units, diagnostic imaging, medical lab, pharmacy, physical and occupational therapy.
What are the hospital departments that have direct patient care activities?
300
Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
Determining the necessity of surgical interventions, discuss the risks and benefits, any alternative treatments, and obtaining consent.
What are the duties of the surgeon during the preoperative phase?
400
Ability to change to accept positive outcomes.
What is adaptability?
400
An organization that reviews and accredits surgical technology programs upon recommendation of the ARC/STSA.
What is the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)?
400
HMOs and PPOs, private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid.
What are the types of healthcare reimbursement?
400
Developed the technique for antiseptic surgery.
Who is John Lister?
500
Maintaining a patent airway; transferring the patient to the PACU or Phase II Recovery; assuring patient is comfortable after surgery.
What are the duties of the anesthesia provider in the post operative phase?
500
Decision making and problem solving require gathering reliable information, evaluating the information for a variety of problem solving solutions and selecting the most appropriate option based on the criteria and situation.
What is critical thinking?
500
The organization that is soley responsible for all decisions regarding certification, from determining eligibility to maintaining, denying, granting, and reviewing the designation.
What is the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)?
500
Administration,facilities/maintenance, environmental services, dietary and food services, purchasing, central services, materials management, medical records, and admissions.