CORRESPONDENCE COURSE U.S. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT CENTER AND SCHOOL SUBCOURSE MD0923 EDITION 100 INTRODUCTION TO THE OPERATING ROOM A patient scheduled for surgery will have his operation performed by specilally trained personnel working in a highly specialized area of the hospital. This area--the operating room (OR) suite--has an environment suiited to its needs, but one quite different from that in the rest of thehospital. All activities in the OR suite are centered around the best possible care of the patient. The purpose of this subcourse is to familiarize you with certain aspects of the OR environment that will provide you with a basis for understanding your role as an OR specialist and enable you to enhance the performance of duties assigned to you in the care of the patient. ---------------------- Length: 140 Pages Estimated Hours to Complete: 10 Format: PDF file Size: 2.3 MB ---------------------- Subcourse Components: Lesson 1, Orientation. Lesson 2, Operating Room Personnel, Policies, and Nomenclature. Lesson 3, Safety in the Operating Room. ---------------------------- Anyone may take this course. However, to receive credit hours, you must be officially enrolled and complete an examination furnished by the Nonresident Instruction Branch at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Enrollment is normally limited to Department of Defense personnel. Others may apply for enrollment, but acceptance is not guaranteed. This file is in PDF format and requires a PDF reader. A free PDF reader is available from Adobe through the link below. This Course in available only by Download. |
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