SGT 202LC - Surgical Technology IV Clinical Externship II

7.50 Credits, 22.50 Contact Hours (22.50 lab)

Assisting surgical team members with daily preoperative and postoperative duties of a student surgical technologist while under the direct supervision of a staff surgical technologist and a registered nurse. Includes one-on-one training in a facility providing surgical services, progressing through rotations into the first scrub role for minor procedures and the second scrub role in major cases. At the completion of externship rotations the student will be scrubbing in the first scrub role for most procedures when appropriate.

Prerequisite(s): SGT 201 , SGT 201LB , SGT 201LC , and WRT 102
Information: This course precedes SGT 203 Surgical Technologist Capstone. Students must complete 120 cases over SGT 201LC and SGT 202LC. Thirty cases must be in general surgery; twenty of these cases must be in the first scrub role. Students are required to complete 90 cases in various surgical specialties; 60 of these cases must be in the first scrub role and evenly distributed among a minimum of 5 surgical specialties. Fifteen is the maximum number of cases that can be counted in any one surgical specialty. The student can complete a maximum of 10 diagnostic cases and 5 vaginal delivery cases that will count toward the maximum number of second scrub role cases. The maximum number of second scrub role cases is 10 in general surgery and 30 in specialty surgery. Observation of cases does not count toward the 120 required cases.