Since 1998, the Surgical Technology department at Sinclair Community College has been offering the opportunity for you to prepare for a career as a member of a surgical team. A Surgical Technologist works together with a Surgeon, Registered Nurse, and Anesthesiologist to ensure proper surgical case management. Specifically, Surgical Technologists prepare and pass all sterile instruments during the surgical procedure while maintaining the sterile field and anticipating the needs of the surgeon.
The goal of this program is to provide students with the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to gain employment as entry-level surgical technologists and become contributing members of the health care team.
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Our program is specifically designed to provide you with the educational skill development and clinical experience to function under medical direction as a competent surgical technologist. The coursework for this program offers full range exposure to math and science, communication, professionalism, and the complete study of surgical science. Our program’s educational combination of both didactic instruction and clinical practice provides the knowledge you need to succeed in this field.
A surgical Technologist helps to meet the needs of patients in the operating rooms in a variety of different environments. Employment may be found in hospital operating rooms, OB departments, ambulatory surgery centers, endoscopy centers, tissue banks, sterile processing departments, and private work with physician groups.
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This is an advanced certificate program designed to provide Registered Nurses (RN’s), graduate nurses, and nursing students, an introduction to and experiential learning opportunities in perioperative nursing. Students will be exposed to the knowledge and skills required to provide safe, patient-centered care to patients having surgical intervention during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods. Upon completion, students will be prepared for an entry-level operating room staff nurse position. Graduates are also eligible to join the Association of PeriOperative Nurses (AORN), and, following two years of operating room experience, may sit for the CNOR exam, an accredited credentialing exam for perioperative registered nurses.
View Full Program DetailsThis advanced short-term certificate is designed to provide Registered Nurses, who specialize in Perioperative Nursing, the opportunity to learn the technical skills required to perform in the role of the Scrub during surgical intervention. Students will be exposed to the knowledge and skills required to provide assistance to the surgeon performing surgical intervention during the intraoperative period.
View Full Program DetailsThe Tissue Banking Technology certificate program prepares individuals to attain the skills necessary to become a certified tissue banking technologist. Tissue banking technologists are integral in the recovery, processing, storage and distribution of human tissue.
Students in this program will gain basic knowledge of human anatomy, sterile technique and clean room protocols, tissue processing techniques and equipment, and all ethical and regulatory standards related to the field of Tissue Banking. Basic concepts of Sterile Processing procedures will also be introduced. Note: For students under age 18 there may be restrictions on participating in certain Health Sciences programs. Any student under age 18 must contact the program director/department chair to discuss whether he or she may enroll.
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Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) in collaboration with The Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARCSTSA), Sinclair’s Surgical Technology program provides students with the opportunity to work as a Certified Surgical Technologist.
In this program, students will be required to complete the academic classroom requirements, but will also have the opportunity to gain valuable supervised clinical practice. As part of the curriculum, the students will rotate through the clinical affiliates as scheduled in the course sequence. The standard surgical rotation case requirements that students must achieve is 120 cases, following the AST Core Curriculum, 6th edition.
CAAHEP: 9355 - 113th St. N., #7709, Seminole, FL 33775
ARCSTSA: 19751 E. Mainstreet, Suite 339, Parker, CO 80138
Graduates of our Surgical Technology Program take the CST Exam before graduation each Spring Semester.
The CST statistics for our graduates are as follows:
Pass Rate | Participation Rate | |
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Class of 2022 | 100% | 100% |
Class of 2021 | 90% | 100% |