{"title":"The old St. Thomas operating theatre.","authors":"T Costa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"19 1","pages":"10-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21186684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entry level: associate degree--are we ready?","authors":"C Olsen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We need to look at the educational preparation of the surgical technologist and consider the move to a single entry level, the associate degree. There are reasons to support the community college associate degree program. Cost effectiveness, integration into the main stream of allied health education, access to experts in their fields, controlled laboratory and clinical experience, transferability, and upward mobility are just a few. Let us learn from the problems of multiple entry that now plague nursing education. We are young enough not to have become entrenched. Let us declare a single entry, associate degree level now.</p>","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"18 6","pages":"11-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21149823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selling yourself, your profession, and your organization.","authors":"D E Corrigan, D Fleming","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"18 6","pages":"23-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21149826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AIDS: the risk to you.","authors":"W F Taylor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acquired immunodeficiency deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is atopic that currently grips the attention of many people in this country. How many surgical technologists have taken the time to study this subject and learn how we should respond? This article briefly reviews the microbiology and the transmission of AIDS, as well as discussing briefly the groups at high risk for contracting AIDS. Some elementary precautions for surgical technologists will be listed, and then the relevance of this topic for surgical technologists will be discussed. It is important for surgical technologists to understand how AIDS is transmitted, not only to prevent the immediate spread of the disease, but so that surgical technologists can help inform the nonmedical public about the disease and thereby help minimize panic and hysteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"18 4","pages":"17-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21147358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H M Blackford, N A Davis, P M Dodd, R G Gagne, W J Teutsch, B I Wherry, S L Wilkins, K A Zeitlin
{"title":"HHS circulating regulations finalized on June 17.","authors":"H M Blackford, N A Davis, P M Dodd, R G Gagne, W J Teutsch, B I Wherry, S L Wilkins, K A Zeitlin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On June 17, 1986, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its final regulations in the Federal Register governing the hospital Conditions of Participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. The final regulations state that \"In accordance with applicable State laws and approved medical staff policies and procedures, ...surgical technologists may assist in circulatory duties under the supervision of a qualified registered nurse who is immediately available to respond to emergencies\". Coming after a dozen years of exhaustive research and debate on the conditions, HHS deleted the work \"direct\" as it applies to the degree of supervision required for circulating surgical technologists because, HHS states, \"it will give hospitals maximum flexibility to manage their internal procedures...and will recognize appropriately the special qualifications of surgical technologists\". The following article will provide you with the historical background and development of this regulation, scheduled to take effect on September 15.</p>","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"18 4","pages":"11-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21170485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research in surgery: the role of the surgical technologist.","authors":"R Compton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"17 2","pages":"34-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21142292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New forms of practice, new ways to pay: will they transform professional landscape?","authors":"A Paxton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"16 6","pages":"14-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21179507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rights of discharged employees.","authors":"B I Wherry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"16 6","pages":"12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21137017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hypnosis in the surgical suite.","authors":"H R Westmen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79753,"journal":{"name":"The Surgical technologist","volume":"16 5","pages":"12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21138383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}