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Course Listings 2017-2018 270 PON210 3 Credits 3 Periods Perioperative Principles I Role and responsibilities of the professional nurse in the perioperative setting. Team concept, patient care, nursing process and impact of quality assurance. Role of Association of Operating Room Nurse Standards of Practice. Prerequisites: Acceptance into program or permission of department. Corequisites: PON214 PON212 3 Credits 3 Periods Perioperative Principles II Common pathogenic organism and methods of sanitation/sterilization. Instruments, procedures intervention measures related to the operating room. State and Federal regulating agencies. Moral and ethical issues. Prerequisites: PON 210 or permission of department. Corequisites: PON214 PON214 4 Credits 9.5 Periods PeriOperative Laboratory Practical application of perioperative nursing. Aseptic technique. Scrubbing, gowning, gloving, instrumentation, and maintenance of a sterile field. Accountability emphasized. Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Surgical Technology for Operating Room Nurse Program. Corequisites: PON210 and PON212. PON218 3 Credits 15 Periods PeriOperative Clinical Practice I Application of the nursing process in care of surgical patients during the perioperative Periods. Statements of competency established by the Association of Operating Room Nurses. Prerequisites: PON214. PON220 3 Credits 15 Periods PeriOperative Clinical Practice II Application of the nursing process in care of surgical patients during the perioperative Periods. Statements of Competency, established by the Association of Operating Room Nurses. Prerequisites: PON 214 or permission of department. PON230 LEC 2 Credits LEC 2 Periods / LAB 1 Credit LAB 3 Periods Surgical Technology Materials Update Current surgical technology materials. Surgical specialty modifications, introductions, technology. Specific uses, handling, application to surgical procedures. Prerequisites: Currently enrolled in Surgical Technology or Surgical Technology for the Operating Room Nurse Program, or Certified Surgical Technologist, or permission of program director. Cross-referenced: SGT230 PHILOSOPHY (PHI) PHI101 3 Credits 3 Periods Introduction to Philosophy General consideration of human nature and the nature of the universe. Knowledge, perception, freedom and determinism, and the existence of God. Prerequisites: None. PHI105 3 Credits 3 Periods Introduction to Ethics Major theories of conduct. Emphasis on normative ethics, theories of good and evil from Plato to the present. Prerequisites: None. PHI213 3 Credits 3 Periods Medical and Bio-Ethics A philosophical consideration of moral problems that arise in relation to medicine and biology, e.g., death, patient's rights and biological experimentation. Prerequisites: None.