Pennsylvania Highlands Community College · Courses
SRG
4 courses with the subject SRG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SRG 100Operating Techniques I10
This course will introduce the student to the components of effective communication in the operating room, such as ethical, legal and moral responsibilities of operating room personnel, terminology and the history of surgery. The student will be introduced to the principles of disinfection and sterilization of equipment utilized in the operating room, central sterile supply area and in the basics of safe patient care. Students will be assigned to the operating rooms patient holding area and assist in the preoperative preparation of the surgical patient. Students will transport and position patients for surgery, assist with circulating duties, scrub, gown and glove and participate in surgical intervention. Surgical instrumentation, sutures and procedures will be introduced.
This course will introduce the student to the basic principles of pharmacology such as drug identification for patients, safe practices utilizing drugs in the sterile field and legal responsibilities of the surgical technologist in handling drugs and solutions.
This course is a continuation of Operating Techniques II and will emphasize additional advanced procedures along with review of procedures contained within Operating Techniques I and II.
