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A comprehensive review of chapter 1 in a surgical technology course, covering key concepts and principles. It includes short answer questions and answers related to the history of surgery, team formation, surgical conscience, professional behavior, and the role of the surgical technologist. Valuable for students preparing for certification exams and those seeking to understand the fundamentals of surgical technology.
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The surgeon who used ligatures for arteries in the performance of amputations is ________________. - CORRECT ANSWERS Ambrose Pare The physician who developed and taught the principles of wound closure, hemostasis, and tissue handling is _____________. - CORRECT ANSWERS Halstead The physician who is known as the father of modern surgery because of his work with aseptic surgical technique, including the use of carbolic acid is _______________. - CORRECT ANSWERS Lister Describe the five stages of team formation. Your class is a team. Your goal is to graduate successfully with the skills to pass the certification exam and obtain a job in your field. Analyze the five stages - CORRECT ANSWERS Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning The formation of the group occurs and individuals are driven by the desire to be accepted by others while avoiding conflicts. - CORRECT ANSWERS Forming Trust is deleveloped and the memebers are comfortable discussing disconnect and challenging others opinions. This stage is known to be necessary for team growth and development of tolerance for differences. - CORRECT ANSWERS Storming Team members develop a mutal plan and work towards the success of the project goal. - CORRECT ANSWERS Norming Highly functioning teams operate at this stage. The group functions as a unit to accomplish its tasks. Members are competent and able to perform their assigned tasks without supervision. - CORRECT ANSWERS Performing The task is completed and the is dissolved - CORRECT ANSWERS Adjourning
Describe the three roles that the surgical technologist could be assigned to perform during a surgical procedure. - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. First Scrub role. 2. Second Scrub role.
___________ in the role of surgical technologists means being nonjudgemental of patients, surgical conscience and honesty, respect for the patients and their decisions, ability to communicate, willing to serve on committees, always on time and constant attendance, maintaining patient confidentiality, and willing to learn and cope with change. - CORRECT ANSWERS Competency Describe a "typical" workday for the surgical technologist. - CORRECT ANSWERS A typical workday for a ST also consists of standing for long hours of periods of time. Lifting heavy instruments and objects. They are exposed to multiple different diseases. Unpleasant smells and sights. Lastly, they are around hazardous materials. List several reasons why a surgical technologist might need to communicate with the diagnostic imaging department, medical laboratory department, or a medical-surgical floor nurse. - CORRECT ANSWERS Diagnostic Imagining Medical laboratory Medical-surgical floor nurse How does health care financing affect the services that health care professionals provide? - CORRECT ANSWERS Health care financing affects the services that health care professionals provide in some cases if a patient doens't have insurence and they cannot afford to have a procedure done, they can't afford the medical attention so therefore they will not be able to get the right treatment they need. criteria which means the ST will be judged in a case concerning alleged negligence or malpractice. This includes the job title, requirements, nature of the position, duties, accountability, immediate supervisor, work hours. - CORRECT ANSWERS Job Desciption describing in this case what an ST will do during their role as an ST. This means the ST will be responsible for maintaing sterility, instrument set ups and counts, making decisions, assisting the surgeons. ect. - CORRECT ANSWERS Role Description When an ARC/STSA site visitor is sent to a surgical technology program to verify and clarify records and annual reporting information, to whom does he or she submit the findings? - CORRECT ANSWERS CAAHEP
What term describes the surgical technologist's foundational commitment to professional honesty, confidentiality, fair treatment, cost containment, and attention to the highest level of surgical patient care? - CORRECT ANSWERS Surgical Conscience According to the AST position statement on teamwork, which type of environment contributes most to a safe and efficient surgical experience with positive patient outcomes? - CORRECT ANSWERS Collaborative What term describes the relationship between the CST and the patient or the patient's family? - CORRECT ANSWERS Therapeutic What term describes the relationship between the certified surgical technologist (CST) and the other members of the surgical team in the OR? - CORRECT ANSWERS Professional What organization develops national certification exams for surgical technologists and surgical first assistants and confers the appropriate credential to eligible certificants? - CORRECT ANSWERS National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) How many phases of surgical case management are there? - CORRECT ANSWERS Perioperative = Preoperative, Intraoperative, Postoperative. The physician who performed dissections on cadavers, which are now called autopsies, providing meticulous drawings of anatomy, and became known as the father of modern anatomy is __________________. - CORRECT ANSWERS Andreas Vesalius The physician who proved the germ theory of disease using swan neck flasks is __________________. - CORRECT ANSWERS Louis Pasteur