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A comprehensive set of questions and answers covering key concepts from chapter 1 of a surgical technology textbook. It covers topics such as surgical conscience, ambulatory surgical facilities, accreditation, and the roles of various surgical team members. Useful for students preparing for exams or reviewing key concepts.
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surgical conscience - CORRECT ANSWERS The basis for the practice of strict adherence to sterile technique by all surgical team members; involves a level of honesty and moral integrity that must be upheld ambulatory surgical facilities - CORRECT ANSWERS Primary health services for walk in patients. Also known as urgent care, express care, and quick care proprietary - CORRECT ANSWERS an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits HMO - CORRECT ANSWERS Health maintenance organization. A prepaid health insurance plan in which patients receive health care from designated providers the joint commission - CORRECT ANSWERS accredits private, nonprofit, organizations whose purpose is to encourage the attainment of high standards of instructional medical care nursing care units - CORRECT ANSWERS direct patients care and informed consent risk management - CORRECT ANSWERS steps taken to minimize danger, hazard, and liability. purchasing central services - CORRECT ANSWERS oversees sterilization needs negligence - CORRECT ANSWERS Omission of that which ought to be done. Accreditation - CORRECT ANSWERS Process whereby businesses, educational institutions and programs, and health care organizations are determined to meet standards and performance criteria as established by an accrediting agency.
NBSTSA - CORRECT ANSWERS National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting; national credentialing organization that offers national certification examinations for the surgical technologist and surgical assistants. ARC-ST - CORRECT ANSWERS Accreditation Review Committee on Education in Surgical Technology; a committee on accreditation that is under the large umbrella of the CAAHEP(Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs) circulator - CORRECT ANSWERS nonsterile surgical team member who moves about the periphery of the sterile field; could be RN, LPN/LVN, or a surgical technologist. Core Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWERS the recommended appropriate curriculum template for an educational program that provides the expected base of knowledge for entry level into the chosen profession. Intraoperative - CORRECT ANSWERS occurs during surgical intervention postoperative - CORRECT ANSWERS period of time after surgery when the patient is recovering preceptor - CORRECT ANSWERS instructor who demonstrates the general rules of conduct and procedures and guides the students while they are practicing or performing preoperative - CORRECT ANSWERS period of time before surgical procedure begins
at the top administration level - CORRECT ANSWERS several vice presidents oversee broad areas one function of the medical staff committee - CORRECT ANSWERS to verify the credentials of the physicians and specified health care personnel DON - CORRECT ANSWERS director of nursing GN - CORRECT ANSWERS graduate nurses CNOR - CORRECT ANSWERS certified nurse operating room Direct patient care - CORRECT ANSWERS nursing care units, diagnostic imaging, medical laboratory, pharmacy, physical and occupational therapy Non Direct patient care - CORRECT ANSWERS hospital administration, hospital maintenance, housekeeping, food services, purchasing and central supply, and medical records AORN - CORRECT ANSWERS Association of periOperative Registered Nurses PPO - CORRECT ANSWERS A prepaid health insurance plan in which providers agree to deliver services for discount fees; patients can go to any provider, but using nonparticipating providers results in higher costs to the patient
DRG - CORRECT ANSWERS Diagnosis-related Groups: created by Medicare in 1983 as an attempt to contain health care costs. A hospital receives a set amount of money for a patient with a certain diagnosis. medicare - CORRECT ANSWERS administered by the federal government; for 65 and older, people who receive Social Security disability Medicare Part A - CORRECT ANSWERS Hospital insurance Medicare Part B - CORRECT ANSWERS supplemental insurance that covers physician costs and other services Medicare Part D - CORRECT ANSWERS Prescription drug coverage Medicaid - CORRECT ANSWERS government assistance program that is funded jointly by the state and federal governments; it is for people with low incomes CRNA - CORRECT ANSWERS Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists AST - CORRECT ANSWERS Association of Surgical Technologist CAAHEP - CORRECT ANSWERS commission on accreditation of allied health educational programs ST organizations - CORRECT ANSWERS ARC-ST over CAAHEP over Concorde
1000 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWERS era in which Homer and Susruta, were to have established their individual places in: Greece's & India's history as the author that: provided a view of military medicine, and reputation for being the Father of medicine in their respective places of origin 500 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWERS Considered the Classical Era. (Greek medicine period in history) Alkmalon - sensory nerves detected Herophilos - FATHER of anatomy, developed doctrine of the pulse Erasistratos - mapped anatomy of the brain, noted difference in sensory & motor nerves 250 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWERS Paul of Aegina - refined diagnosis of diabetes 0 year - CORRECT ANSWERS Celsus - described the signs of inflammation Galen - 1st Great anatomist - he took over where Hippocrates left off and his theorem stood for 1500 years 500 A.D. - CORRECT ANSWERS Alexander - described the pump-like function of the heart 1000 A.D. - CORRECT ANSWERS Avicenna - Persian philosopher, wrote The Canon of Medicine, in it he revived Aristotle's theories 1400 A.D. - CORRECT ANSWERS Linacre - translated Galen's work to Latin 1500 A.D. - CORRECT ANSWERS Paracelsus - broke with Galen & Avicenna, but provided no better school of thought
Pare - greatest surgeon of the 16th century, began to legate arteries after amputation; stopped cauterizing wounds with hot irons/oils. Vesalius - CORRECT ANSWERS 1500 A.D. - he was the Father of Modern Anatomy who challenged Galen's theories that stood for 1500 years, dissected human cadavers Jenner - CORRECT ANSWERS inventor of the vaccination for smallpox Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWERS Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology Lister - CORRECT ANSWERS Developed technique of antiseptic surgery Halsted - CORRECT ANSWERS Developed meticulous closure of wounds Cushing - CORRECT ANSWERS Father of neurosurgery; reduced mortality rate for mengiomas from 96% to 5% Roentgen - CORRECT ANSWERS developed the x-ray machine Cooley - CORRECT ANSWERS Perfected the heart-lung machine; performed first US heart transplant and first total artificial heart implant DeBakey - CORRECT ANSWERS Developed the first ventricular assist pump Late 19th century - CORRECT ANSWERS "surgery beadle" are employed in the OR
urgent - CORRECT ANSWERS surgical pathology requiring treatment within a short period of time elective - CORRECT ANSWERS surgical intervention that does not have to be done right away optional - CORRECT ANSWERS surgical intervention that does not threaten life or limb