Orientation to Surgical Technology
The surgeon, anesthesiologist, circulator, and surgical technologist are members of this.
What is the Surgical Team?
An obligation either to do or not to do something.
What is Liability?
This means, "The Patient First".
What is Aeger primo?
The irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain
What is Whole Brain Death?
This organization developes standards and accredits health care organizations in the US.
What is the Joint Commission?
This refers to the absence of microorganisms.
What is ASEPSIS?
Professional misconduct would be considered this.
What is malpractice?
This means, "Above all, do no harm"
What is Primum non nocere
When a patient dies, a Procurement Coordinator may help to organize this process.
What is Organ Donation?
Among other things, this agency regulates medical devices.
What is the FDA?
These make up the three phases of surgical case management.
What is Preoperative, Intraoperative and postoperative?
Professional status granted by the state government that defines the limits of practice and regulates the profession.
What is licensure?
This means, "Let the master answer"
What is Respondeat superior
A coping stage of behavior that result in the patient returning to abnormal or former behavior
What is Regression
This is like the AST, but for nurses.
What is AORN?
These make up the 3 main categories of surgery.
What is emergent, urgent, and elective?
Either the doing or not-doing of an act that a reasonable and prudent individual would not do under the same circumstances.
What is Negligence?
This means, "In good faith, or innocently"
What is Bona fide
A legal document signed by the patient stating the conditons and limitation of medical assistance in the event of near death or prognosis of death.
What is a Living Will?
This organization administers the certification exam for Surgical Technologists.
What is NBSTSA?
This involves a level of honesty and moral integrity that must be upheld by all members of the surgical team.
What is SURGICAL CONSCIENCE?
A civil wrong, can be either intentional or unintentional
What is a Tort?
This means, "The thing speaks for itself"
What is Res ipsa loquitur
This doctor proposed 5 stages of grief.
Who is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross?
The organization under the CAAHEP that sets the standards and guidelines that accredited programs must follow?
What is ARC/STSA?