Mock surgery in Minn.Capitol promotes education bill
The Minnesota State Capitol is due to become an operating room.
A state surgical association planned to perform a mock total knee replacement in the Capitol Thursday.
The goal is to show legislators clad in surgical gowns the role played by surgical technologists in the operating room - a position that currently doesn't require a minimum education level or licensure.
Surgical technologists prepare patients and surgeries and pass tools to surgeons.
The Minnesota State Assembly of the Association of Surgical Technologists is promoting legislation that could require technologists to graduate from an accredited program to work in Minnesota. They say this will help prevent errors made in the operating room.
Action on the bill is expected in the next few weeks.
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