PRINTER'S NO. 2095
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
413
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY RAPP, WATSON, BAKER, PASHINSKI, DUSH, SONNEY,
TOOHIL, READSHAW, DiGIROLAMO, MILLARD, LONGIETTI, KINSEY,
WARD, MURT AND MARSICO, JUNE 21, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JUNE 21, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating the week of September 17 through 23, 2017, as
"Surgical Technologist Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Surgical technologists play a vital role in the care
and health of surgical patients in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Surgical technologists, also called scrubs and
surgical or operating room technicians, are members of operating
room teams, which most commonly include surgeons,
anesthesiologists and circulating nurses, and, under the
supervision of surgeons, registered nurses or other surgical
personnel, surgical technologists assist medical operations in a
number of capacities; and
WHEREAS, All major hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers
in this Commonwealth employ surgical technologists to work with
surgeons in the operating room to provide quality patient care;
and
WHEREAS, As the baby boomer generation, which accounts for a
large percentage of the general population, approaches
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