1. 'Practice of surgical technology' means performing tasks in preparation for surgery and providing care in collaboration with a team of providers of health care and other persons to a patient before, during and after surgery. The term includes, without limitation: (a) Working with a registered nurse to carry out a plan to care for the patient and prepare the operating room for surgery; (b) Preparing and gathering sterile supplies, instruments and equipment necessary for a surgical procedure; (c) Ensuring that surgical equipment is functioning properly and safely; and (d) In the operating room under the direction of an appropriate provider of health care: (1) Ensuring that the area in which the surgery is conducted remains sterile; (2) Anticipating and responding to the needs of the surgeon and other members of the team during surgery; (3) Passing supplies, instruments and equipment to other members of the team; (4) Sponging or suctioning the operative site of the patient; (5) Preparing and cutting materials for sutures; (6) Transferring and irrigating with fluids; (7) Transferring drugs to other members of the team; (8) Handling specimens; (9) Holding retractors and other Preparing and cutting materials for sutures; (6) Transferring and irrigating with fluids; (7) Transferring drugs to other members of the team; (8) Handling specimens; (9) Holding retractors and other instruments and equipment; (10) Applying electrocautery to clamps on blood vessels cut during surgery; (11) Connecting drains and catheters to suction or drainage apparatus; (12) Applying skin staples and dressings to closed wounds; (13) Counting sponges, needles and other supplies and instruments; and (14) Removing instruments after the completion of surgery. 2. The term does not include administering a drug to a patient. (Added to NRS by 2017, 330)
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