Specialty instrumentation utilized in surgeries of general, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary. Students actively participate in demonstration of clinical skills in the mock operating room under direction and supervision of an operating room professional. Introduction and redemonstration of basic clinical skill components needed to participate as a member of the surgical team in actual operating rooms. Offered in Parkland s mock operating room. Course meets first eight weeks of semester.
Students function in the role of the surgical technologist in actual operating rooms.
Includes experience in the department of sterile processing. This course meets second eight weeks of the semester. Includes experiences in labor and delivery, special procedures lab, cardiac catherization lab, out patient department, and recovery room. Includes experience in circulating role. Professionalism as it relates to surgical technology.