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Surgical Technology Principles chapters 1
and 2 Exam Study Guide.
ABHES - answer✔Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
ACS - answer✔American College of Surgeons
AORN - answer✔Association of periOperative Registered Nurse
ARC/STSA - answer✔Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical
Assisting
AST - answer✔Association of Surgical Technologist; professional association of surg tech
CST - answer✔Certified surgical technologist
CST-CFA - answer✔Certified surgical technologist-certified first assistant
ORT - answer✔Operating Room Technician
RN - answer✔Registered Nurse
LPN - answer✔Licensed Practice Nurse
Certification - answer✔Acknowledgement by a private agency that a person has achieved a standard
level of knowledge and skill.
Voluntary - answer✔certification of a surgical technologist is?
certification is not required in all 50 states - answer✔Certification is different than licensure because?
rapid monumental development in technology in general - answer✔Why does surgical technologist have
the name they have now?
World War II - answer✔When did the need of assistance in surgery arise?
Professional attributes - answer✔positive behaviors and traits of a professional, highly regarded by the
public and professional peers. They include traits such as honesty, reliability, tact, diplomacy, and
commitment to the profession.
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the battlefield to offer and comfort to the wounded - answer✔During World War I, Army corpsmen
worked on
ORT - answer✔A new profession was born, the Army referred to the corpsmen as operating room
technicians
1965 - answer✔Registered nurses continued to fill the role of a scrub or instrument nurse until?
Teaching the Operating Room Technician - answer✔Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN)
published a book called
Association of Operating Room Technician (AORT) - answer✔In 1968 the AORN board of directors
created the
Liaison Council on Certification for the Surgical Technologist (LCC-ST) - answer✔The AORT created two
new committees, the _____________ and the Joint Review Committee of Education.
AST - answer✔________ is the professional organization for surgical technology.
students and graduate - answer✔The AST supports __________ and ________ surgical technologist
through its many services and publications.
-maintains the Practice Standards, Code of Ethics, and Code of Conduct for surgical technologists.
-publishes a professional journal, The Surgical Technologist
-Holds annual conferences for surgical technologists, assistants, and educators.
-all of the above - answer✔AST provides the following support to student and graduate surgical
technologist, the public, and teaching institutions:
promote the standards of the professional - answer✔It is important for surgical technology students to
become active members of the AST and to
designated role in promotion, certification, accreditation, and continuing education - answer✔As a body
of professionals, surgical technologists are supported by a number of key organizations and partners.
Each has a
ARC/STSA - answer✔Provides educational standards and recommendations required for accreditation of
programs in surgical technology and surgical first assisting
nonprofit accrediting body - answer✔The Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES) is
another
National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) - answer✔oversees certification
and credentialing of surgical technologists and surgical technologist-first assistants