AST Guideline for Patient Transportation

9 3. Continuing education programs should be periodically evaluated for effectiveness including receiving feedback from surgery department personnel. 4. The surgery department should maintain education records for a minimum of three years that include dates of education; names and job titles of employees that completed the continuing education; synopsis of each continuing education session provided; names, credentials, and experience of instructors. Competency Statements Competency Statements Measurable Criteria 1. CSTs have the knowledge and skills for operating various patient transportation devices in a safe manner to prevent injury to the patient and HCP. 2. CSTs have the knowledge and skills to perform the patient care concepts as related to transporting the surgical patient. 3. CSTs have the knowledge and skills to work with the surgical team when transferring the patient from the transportation device to the OR table. 1. Educational standards as established by the Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology . 21 2. The didactic subjects of transporting the surgical patient as well as transferring from bed to transportation device to OR table and patient care concepts is included in a CAAHEP accredited surgical technology program. 3. Students demonstrate knowledge of transporting the surgical patient as well as transferring from bed to transportation device to OR table and patient care concepts in the lab/mock OR and during clinical rotation. 4. As practitioner’s, CSTs perform transportation of the surgical patient as well as transferring from bed to transportation device to OR table and patient care concepts while applying patient safety concepts. 5. CSTs complete continuing education to remain current in their knowledge of safe transfer and transportation of the surgical patient, including following the policies and procedures of the HDO. 19 CST® is a registered trademark of the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA).