Section 449.2417 - "Practice of surgical technology" defined1. "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;(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, 330Added by 2017, Ch. 78,§2, eff. 5/23/2017, op. 1/1/2018. See 2017, Ch. 336, §20.5.