3 credit hour(s) This course introduces students to the principles underlying the skills used in the operating room. This includes patient handling, positioning, prepping, and draping. Aseptic technique and steps of the individual tasks are taught. These principles include scrubbing, gowning, gloving; gowning and gloving another; instrument identification, transport and set up; care of specimens, sutures, needles and sponges. Contact: 3 hours. Additional fee. Does not count toward A.A. degree.