| Question | Answer |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to considerate and respectful care |
| W.T. Bovie | Electro surgical unitis |
| Medical doctor (MD) | licensed physician |
| Surgical conscience | Protecting the patient in all ways |
| Self-image | Mental concept one has of oneself |
| Personality | Complex of character traits, attitudes, behaviors, and emotional tendencies that distinguish an individual from others |
| Type of Hospital | Government |
| Postoperative | After surgery; patient transferred to PACU, vitals, monitored, patient transported to floor, ICU, or discharge |
| Anesthetist | Person who has been trained to administer anesthetic |
| Liable | To be legally bound |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Make sure O.R. has been properly cleaned |
| Assault | Unlawful threat to harm another physically |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Arrange O.R. furniture, so pieces that are a part of sterile field are 18 inches from wall |
| Occupational hazard | Hours of duty may be long or irregular but are subject to fare labor standards act |
| Occupational hazard | Confined in a hospital |
| Incompetence | Being unqualified or inadequate to perform a duty or duties |
| Occupational hazard | Heavy lifting and moving |
| Occupational hazard | Possible injury from medical or electrical equipment |
| Crawford Long | First to discover and use ether to remove small skin tumors from his patients |
| Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) | Specially trained |
| Type of Hospital | University |
| Doctrine of res ipsa loquitur | The occurrence speaks for itself; The master will answer for the acts of the servant |
| Area of employment opportunities | Operating Room |
| Malpractice | An act of negligence |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to expect that all communications and records pertaining to the patient's care are treated as confidential |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Don gown and gloves |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Remove unnecessary equipment |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Counts |
| Type of Hospital | Religious |
| Type of Hospital | Non-pofit |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Attach suction and bovie to sterile field |
| Liability | Being legally bound, as to make good any loss or damage that occurs in a transaction |
| Prophylactic | To prevent |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | May assist with positioning the patient on the surgery table |
| Occupational hazard | Possible injury from wet floor |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Checks supplies and equipment needed for surgical procedures |
| Surgical Technologist | Primarily functions as the scrub person on the surgical team |
| Doctrine of reasonable man | Right of patient to expect that professional will meet duties and standards |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right from the physician information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure and/or treatment |
| Tort | A legal wrong committed by one person involving injury to another person or loss of or damage to personal property |
| Macello Malpighi | Father of Histology |
| Occupational hazard | Exposure to radiation |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Assists in draping the patient with sterile drapes |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Assists the circulator in opening all sterile supplies needed for the procedure |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Assist in ordering and stocking supplies to maintain current stock |
| Primary goal of surgical intervention | Allow patient to return to best physical/mental state |
| Andreas Vesalius | Chief Founder of the Modern Study of Anatomy |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | Required doctors and medical students on his wards to wash their hands |
| Area of employment opportunities | Central processing/supply |
| Defendant | Accused |
| Type of Hospital | Pepriatery |
| Libel | Written defamation |
| Director of Surgery | Is directly responsible for everything and everyone in the operating room suite |
| Giovanni Battista Morgagni | Founder of pathologic anatomy |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| Surgical conscience | Internal desire of each surgical team member to give the very best patient care |
| Surgical conscience | Understanding patient fears and anxieties concerning surgery |
| Negligence | The lack of care or skills that any person in the same situation would be expected to use |
| Attitude | Mental position |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to refuse all treatment to the extent permitted by law and be informed of medical consequences of that action |
| Ethics | Rules/standards |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to every consideration of privacy concerning the patient's medical care program |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Preform hand scrub |
| Doctor of Osteopathy | A doctor that studies osteopathy |
| Area of employment opportunities | E.R. or trauma |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to be advised if the hospital proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting the patient's care or treatment |
| Occupational hazard | Considerable standing and walking |
| Intraoperative | During surgery; positioning, prepping, foley, surgery, placing EKG, intubate |
| Surgical conscience | Respect patient right to privacy, property, dignity and identity |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Made simple microscopes |
| Lack of proper supervision | The supervisor, instructor, or physician is absent while the surgical tech is performing his/her responsibilities, or the supervisor, instruction, or physician is not near enough to the tech to give assistance |
| Surgical conscience | Capabilities and qualification |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to expect reasonable continuity of care |
| Joseph Lister | Father of modern antiseptic surgery |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to know what hospital rules and regulations apply to the patient's conduct |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to obtain information as to any relationship of the involved hospital to other health care and educational institutions in so far as the patient's care is concerned |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Prepare sterile field by assembling supplies and equipment |
| Diagnostic | To determine the nature and case of an illness |
| Job Responsibilities for ST | Gown and glove surgeon and assistant |
| Restorative | Regain the patient's health |
| William Halstead | Perfecting a fine-pointed hemostat for clamping bleeding vessels, advocating excellent principles of tissue handling, developing an interrupted silk-suture closure technique, wearing rubber gloves |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to expect that within its capacity a hospital must make reasonable response to the request of a patient for service |
| Nursing assistant/ orderly | Cleans, processes, and stores instruments and supplies |
| Ambriose Pare | French army surgeon in the 16th century who revived the use of ligatures to control hemorrhage |
| Litigation | A lawsuit |
| Perioperative | Occurring in the period immediately before, during, and after surgery |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to obtain from the physician complete current information concerning his/her diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in terms the patient can reasonably expected to understanding |
| Occupational hazard | Exposure to infectious disease |
| Occupational hazard | Possible injury due to burning or scalding |
| Occupational hazard | Rigid aderence to establish procedures |
| Anesthesiologist | Specially trained physician who provides anesthesia to surgical patient |
| Self-esteem | Confidence and satisfaction in oneself |
| Battery | The carrying out of physically-threatened harm |
| Surgical conscience | Attitude of truly caring about a patient |
| Surgical conscience | Involves honesty concerning actions |
| Plaintiff | One who commences a legal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his/her rights; the complaining party |
| Palliative | To relieve or alleviate symptoms |
| Accountability | Responsibilities for which he or she contacted by virtue of employment or learner experience |
| Patient's bill of rights | The right to examine and receive an explanation of the patient's bill regardless of source of payment |
| William Morton | Gave the first public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthetic agent |
| Operating Room Registered Nurse | Functions as circulator and supervises all nursing activities in the O.R. may also scrub, usually a member of Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) |
