SUNY REOC: Rochester Educational Opportunity Center

An exciting program that prepares the graduate for employment in the operating room and in the surgical arena through classroom, laboratory and clinical experience in the local medical community.

Surgical technologists are vital members of the surgical team.  They assist in the operating room under the guidance of the surgeon, registered nurse and other members of the surgical team.  Some of their skills and responsibilities are:

• The sterile set up in the operating room with sterile instruments, equipment, and supplies.
• Gowning and gloving the surgeon and assistants
• Assist with the sterile draping of the patient
• Pass sterile instruments and equipment to the surgeon
• Keeping track of and counting sterile sponges, needles, and instruments
• Proper handling of surgical specimens
• Hold retractors
• Cut suture
• Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery
• Adjust, assemble, or monitor state-of-the-art equipment, such as robotics

Upon completion of the surgical technology program, the graduate receives an REOC certificate and is eligible to sit for the national certifying exam through the National Center for Competency Testing. 

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