Test Bank for Surgical Technology 8th Edition by Kotcher Fuller.

Chapter 01: Surgical Technology: The Profession and the Professional
Fuller: Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice, 8th Edition


MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The professional association for surgical technologists is the ________.
a. Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
b. American College of Surgeons
c. Association of Surgical Technologists
d. Accreditation Review Committee on Education in Surgical Technology
ANS: C
The AST is the professional organization in surgical technology. The association supports students and
technologists through its many services and publications.

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2. ________ demonstrates that a surgical technologist from an accredited program has achieved a minimu
skills.
a. Licensure
b. An associate’s degree
c. Graduation
d. Certification
ANS: D
Certification: Acknowledgment by a private agency that a person has achieved a stated level of knowle
is usually established by graduation from an accredited institution and passing a written examination.

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3. Certification for the surgical technologist is ________.
a. mandatory
b. voluntary
c. unnecessary
d. invalid
ANS: B
Important to know: Students who graduate from an accredited program are required to take the certific
maintaining the school’s accreditation status.

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4. The profession of surgical technologist is defined today as a result of ____________.
a. less demanding professional needs
b. technological advances
c. growing demands in the ancillary departments
d. advances in digital technology
ANS: B
Technological advances created a need for more trained personnel who could assist the surgeon.

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5. The need for assistive personnel in surgery did not arise until ____________.
a. World War I
b. Korean War
c. Civil War
d. World War II
ANS: D

, 7. A new profession was born in the Army for the Corpsman; it was named __________.
a. Corpsman I
b. nurse
c. CST
d. ORT
ANS: D
When nurses were not available, such as on combat ships, corpsmen worked under the direct supervisio
Army referred to these corpsmen as operating room technicians (ORTs). Thereafter, the military played
defining the role of the ORT. Each branch of the military provided specific training for the ORT.

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8. Registered nurses continued to fill the role of the scrub, or “instrument,” nurse until about __________
a. 1970
b. 1965
c. 1966
d. none are correct
ANS: B
Registered nurses continued to fill the role of “instrument nurse” until about 1965, when the role chang
non-sterile nurse.

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9. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) published a book called _____________
a. The Role of the Operating Room Technician
b. Teaching in the Operating Room
c. Teaching the Operating Room Technician
d. Surgical Techniques for Operating Room Technician
ANS: C
In 1967, prompted by the need for guidelines and standards in the training of paramedical surgical pers
Operating Room Nurses (AORN) published a training manual called Teaching the Operating Room Te

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10. In _______ the AORN board of directors created the ________________.
a. 1968, Association of Operating Room Technicians
b. 1965, Association of Operating Room Technicians
c. 1968, Association of Operating Room Nurses
d. 1967, Association of Operating Room Nurses
ANS: C
In 1968 the AORN board of directors created the Association of Operating Room Technicians (AORT
training for the civilian ORT in proprietary schools across the United States.

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11. AORT stands for __________.
a. Association of Operating Radiology Technician
b. Association of Ophthalmic Register Technician
c. Association of Operating Respiratory Technician
d. Association of Operating Room Technicians
ANS: D
AORT stands for Association of Operating Room Technicians.

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12. In an effort to formalize technologists’ education, AORT created two new committees, which are the J