STEC 102:Introduction to Surgical Techniques

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture hours per week: 3
Lab hours per week: 0

Prerequisite(s): STEC 101
Corequisite(s): STEC 102L
This is course continues educating the student on the equipment and furniture commonly found in the OR and on work place safety. This also introduces the student to asepsis and sterile technique and the role of each member of the surgical team, as well as basic instrumentation, scrubbing, gowning, gloving, positioning, prepping, draping and correct sponge, sharps, and instrument counts. Enrollment in the Surgical Technology Program courses is limited to those students who have been selected and admitted to the program. Program courses are sequenced by semester and must be taken as a group each semester per program requirements and policies. (Summer Session C only)