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Surgical Technology
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Surgical Technology is a dynamic and growing field. A technologist will have a wide range of duties that include: preparing supplies and instruments for surgical procedures, assisting the surgeon, maintaining sterile fields, providing quality patient care, assisting with patient transfers to and from the operating room, and performing other departmental duties. This program will prepare a graduate by providing in-class information a skills lab for learning and perfecting skills, as well as clinical settings to work with surgeons and other technologists to experience the Operating Room setting. The clinical experience begins in the second and third semesters and will be in at least 4 different hospital sites.
This gives the student a wide range of procedures as well as the range day- surgery to open heart and trauma. Surgical specialties include General, Orthopedics, OB/Gyn, Neuro, Vascular, Ear, Nose and Throat, Urology and others. The graduate will be able to work in a hospital setting, day surgery or outpatient clinic or in a private doctor’s office. Upon graduation, the technologist will be eligible for certification through the Liaison Council for Certification for the Surgical Technologist. This is a national certification and will allow the graduate to seek employment in the local area or anywhere in the country if relocation is desired. |
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