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Surgical Technology Quarter 1 Midterm
Exam Study Guide.



ABHES- Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools - answer✔Organization that offers accreditation
to higher education institutions

ACS- American College of Surgeons - answer✔A professional organization that establishes educational
standards for surgeons and surgical residency programs

Allied Health Profession - answer✔a profession that follows the priciples of medicine and nursing but
that focuses on an expertise set apart from those practices

AORN - answer✔Association of periOperative Registered Nurses

The professional organization for surgical nurses; originally known as the Association of Operating Room
Nurses

ARC/STSA - Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting -
answer✔Establishes, maintains, and promotes quality standards for education programs in ST and STFA

Assistant Circulator - answer✔Surgical technologist in the nonsterile role of the surgical team,
responsible for monitoring conditions in the operating room as related to patient care, safety,
documentation, distribution of sterile supplies and counts.

AST - answer✔Association of Surgical Technologists

Professional association for surgical technologists that strives to uphold and support the standards of
patient care and the profession

CAAHEP -

Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs - answer✔NEIT's accreditation

Accredits health science programs, including those for surgical technology

Certification - answer✔Acknowledgment by a private agency that a person has achieved a minimum
level of knowledge and skill. Usually established by a graduation from an accredited institution

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CST - answer✔Certified Surgical Technologist

CST that successfully passed the certified examination given by the National Board of Surgical
Technology and Surgical Assisting

CST-CFA - answer✔Certified surgical technologist-certified first assist

A ST with advanced training who has successfully passed the certification examination for surgical first
assistants and is credentialed by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting

Licensure - answer✔professional status, granted by the state government that defines the limits of
practice and regulates those who hold a license

National Certifying Examination for Surgical Technologists - answer✔A comprehensive written
examination required for official certification by the Association of Surgical Technologists

Developed by the NBSTSA

NBSTSA - answer✔National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting

Responsible for all decisions related to certification such as eligibility, renewal, and revocation as well as
developing the certification examination

NCCT - answer✔National center for competency testing

Provides a certification exam for nonaccredited programs and on the job training.

nonsterile team member - answer✔surgical team member who handle only nonsterile equipment
supplies and instruments

The circulator is the primary nonsterile team member

professional attributes - answer✔positive behaviors and traits of a professional

Proprietary school - answer✔private. for profit school

sterile personnel - answer✔members of the surgical team who have performed a surgial scrub or hand
and arm antisepsis procedure.

proposed clinical ladder - answer✔Entry level

Proficient

Expert

Preceptor - answer✔teaches others while scrubbed

On call - answer✔ST's working in a hospital or other facility that provides 24 hr care is usually required
to be on "call"

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