Student Learner Outcomes
Students completing this program will be able to:
Program Student Learner Outcomes
- Apply skills and knowledge utilizing the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains to provide safe and competent patient care as an entry level surgical technologist.
- Demonstrate an entry-level knowledge base by successfully completing the Certification exam.
- Utilize effective communication with members of the surgical team in order to analyze and anticipate the perioperative needs of the patient and the surgical team.
- Demonstrate theoretical and practical proficiency in surgical aseptic technique and patient care.
- Provide patient care in a professional, ethical, and legal manner as a surgical technologist.
- Integrate recognition of the patient as a whole person with multiple dimensions of social, cultural, religious and ethical beliefs to address the biopsychosocial needs of the surgical patient.
- Demonstrate effective adaptability to new and emerging technologies and a commitment to learning as a lifelong process.
Occupational Skills required
- Lift up to 50 pounds to assist moving patients
- Stoop to adjust equipment
- Kneel to perform CPR
- Crouch to pick up stools and equipment
- Reach 5.5' above the floor to attach plugs and suction
- Handle small and large equipment for storing, retrieving and moving
- Grasp syringes, instruments and sterile supplies
- Stand/sit in a fixed position for prolonged periods for surgical procedures; able to refrain from nourishment or restroom breaks for periods of up to 6 hours
- Feel temperature of irrigating solutions
- Push video equipment, microscopes and case carts
- Walk to retrieve supplies from different areas of the hospital without assistive devices
- Dexterity to manipulate knobs and dials associated with surgical equipment
- Assemble/disassemble instruments and technical devices
- Hear and understand muffled communication and alarms without visualization of mouth/lips within ten feet in distance
- Demonstrate the visual ability to load a fine suture onto a needle holder with/without corrective lenses and while wearing safety glasses; ability to accurately detect and identify changes in color
- Comprehend oral and written language including health care information in order to communicate with surgeons and staff
- Speak to communicate in fluent English with surgeons and staff to assure patient safety
- Read typed, handwritten and computer information in English
- Write to communicate in English pertinent information about equipment
- Function safely, effectively and calmly under stressful situations
- Maintain composure while managing and prioritizing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Prioritize multiple tasks
- Exhibit social skills necessary to interact effectively with patients, families, supervisors, and co-workers of the same or different cultures such as respect, politeness, tact, collaboration, teamwork, and discretion
- Utilize critical thinking and sound judgement
- Display attitudes/actions consistent with the ethical standards of the profession
- Be punctual and report to work as scheduled
- Display appropriate interpersonal skills to interact with surgeons, staff and patients
- Remain alert to surroundings and potential emergencies
- Prioritize and perform multiple and concurrent repetitive tasks
- Integrate information and make decisions based on aseptic technique and the standards that are consistent with the professions
- Be conscientious, orderly, and emotionally stable to respond to the demands of the operating room environment
- Apply a rational approach to solve practical problems
- SRG210- Operating Room Externship
Most Common Linked Occupation Title – All Education Levels
- Health Specialties Teachers
Most Common Linked Occupation Title – Associate’s or Less
- Surgical Technologists
Surgical Technology Program Goals
The goal of this program is to provide students with the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to gain employment as an entry-level Surgical Technologist. This will be accomplished by preparing competent graduates utilizing the cognitive (thinking), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains and the curriculum structured by North Shore Community College by meeting and exceeding the standards and guidelines set forth by the CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in Surgical Technology.
Minimum Expectations Statement:
“To prepare entry-level Surgical Technologists who are competent in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains to enter the profession.”
For More Information
Admissions
admissions@northshore.edu
978-762-4188
Program Questions
surgtech@northshore.edu
978-762-4160
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Accreditation
North Shore Community College is an accredited public institute of higher education where all are welcome and each is challenged. NSCC is accredited by NECHE, the New England Commission of Higher Education.
The Surgical Technology Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon the recommendation of the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting.
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