CST’s and Surgical Conscience
Group C is made up of Michala, Elizabeth Ramirez, and Alondra Vargas. We are all
playing an equal role in our group project/podcast, meaning we all worked together to choose the topic and we will all be speaking in the podcast recording. We may do some individual research, but the majority of our reference information will come from our CST text. After discussing a few different potential topics, we decided to speak about the OR team and their responsibilities, along with our thoughts on surgical conscious and how it relates to patient safety. Our instructors
have spoken to us so often about the importance of surgical conscious, so we decided that this idea should be more widespread. Michala is going to be the first one to speak, so I will be doing a short introduction to let the audience know who we are and what we will be discussing in our episode. Then I will begin with the roles of the surgeon and the first assist/physician assistant. To end my segment, I will
introduce the idea of surgical conscious and discuss what it means to me. The second segment will come from Alondra V. She is speaking about the role/responsibilities of the surgical technologist, along with her version of surgical conscious. Lastly, the third segment, will be from Elizabeth R. She will wrap up the OR team by talking about the circulator and the anesthesia team, then finish off with her thoughts on surgical conscious. We will have a conclusion at the end that summarizes the OR team, and addresses the fact that although they all have separate tasks throughout surgery, they are all working together to provide the best quality care to the
patient (specifically through using their surgical conscious.)
References
Chambers, Karen L. “Patient Safety EQuals: Aseptic Technique, Surgical Conscience and Time
Out.” AST.org, The Surgical Technologists, 2013, www.ast.org/articles/2013/2013-03-
351.pdf
Frey, K.B. (2018) Surgical technology for the surgical technologist: A positive care approach.
Boston, MA: Cengage Learning
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