Operation Theatre Technician - First Year Syllabus

  • S.NO.
    COURSE CONTENT OF FIRST YEAR
    NO OF PERIODS
    (45 MINS EACH)
    NO OF HOURS
  • 1.
    HISTORY OF NURSING :
    04
    03 Hrs
  • (i)
    Pre-Nightingale reforms, St. Vincent De Paul and Mile Le Gras, John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, the work of the Fleidners at Kaisersworth.
    01
     
  • (ii)
    Florence Nightingale – Her life, her work in the Crimean war, the founding of Nursing School at St. Thomas Hospital. Her interest in India, in Military hospital and sanitation.
    01
     
  • (iii)
    Contemporary developments – Discoveries of Pasteur, Lister and Koch. The relationship of nursing to hospital reform.
    01
     
  • (iv)
    Nursing in India in modern days, the introduction and growth of Nursing in India, developments of schools, examination and registration, a brief review of organization in India today.
    01
     
  • 2.
    ANATOMY
    80
     
  • (i)
    • Introduction
    • - Tissues of the body
    02
     
  • (ii)
    • Skeletal System
    • - The skull, the thorax, the vertebral column, the pelvic girdle, the upper limb, the lower limb
    08
     
  • (iii)
    • Arthrology
    • - Types characteristics, varieties and movements.
    • - Special joints - Sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, shoulder, elbow, radioulnar, wrist, hip, knee, tibiofibular, ankle and joints of the hand and foot.
    08
     
  • (iv)
    • Myology
    • - Muscles of head and face, chest, abdomen, back, upper and lower extremities.
    • - Anatomical spaces
    08
     
  • (v)
    • Circulatory System
    • - Heart and blood vessels
    10
     
  • (vi)
    • Lymphatic system
    03
     
  • (vii)
    • Alimentary system
    • - Alimentary canal and accessory organs.
    05
     
  • (viii)
    • Respiratory system
    • - Respiratory passage, lungs and pleura
    05
     
  • (ix)
    • Endocrine glands
    05
     
  • (x)
    • Urinary system
    • - Kidney, Ureter and Urinary bladder.
    05
     
  • (xi)
    • Nervous system
    • - Meninges, brain, spinal cord, nerves and their plexuses.
    08
     
  • (xii)
    • Organs of special senses
    • - Tongue, nose, eye, ear and skin.
    08
     
  • (xiii)
    • Reproductive system
    • - Male and female.
    05
     
  • 3.
    PHYSIOLOGY
    60
    45 Hrs
  • (i)
    • Circulatory system
    • - Blood
    • - Cardiac cycle and circulation of the blood
    • - Blood pressure and pulse
    10
     
  • (ii)
    • Digestive system
    • - Food
    • - Digestion of food
    04
     
  • (iii)
    Physiology of respiration
    06
     
  • (iv)
    Metabolism
    06
     
  • (v)
    Function of endocrine glands
    10
     
  • (vi)
    Renal function
    08
     
  • (vii)
    Nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid.
    08
     
  • (viii)
    Taste, sight, smell and hearing
    08
     
  • 4.
    ELEMENTARY PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
    20
    15 Hrs
  • (i)
    Characteristics of bacteria, virus , fungus
    02
     
  • (ii)
    Sources of infection
    02
     
  • (iii)
    Mode of spread
    02
     
  • (vi)
    Destruction of bacteria.
    02
     
  • (v)
    Control of infection.
    5
     
  • (vi)
    Inflammation, healing and repair.
    01
     
  • (viii)
    Infection, wounds, ulcers, blisters, boils, fractures, burns, scalds, gangrene and haemorrhage.
    05
     
  • (viii)
    Urine - Characteristics of normal urine, variations in diseases, collection of samples and routine tests.
    02
     
  • (ix)
    Faeces - Characteristics of normal faeces, variation in diseases, collection of samples and routine tests.
    02
     
  • (x)
    Sputum and vomit - Characteristics in different diseases, collection of samples.
    01
     
  • 5.
    HYGIENE, SANITATION AND USES OF HYGIENE CHEMICALS –
    30
    22.5Hrs
  • (i)
    Definition and historical background
    01
     
  • (ii)
    • Personal hygiene
    • Sleep, washing, eating and drinking, exercises, skin disease and their prevention.
    02
     
  • (iii)
    • Water
    • Sources - Rain, surface, underground.
    • Purification - Reasons, principles and methods.
    • Sterilization - Physical and chemical methods, individual water sterilizing outfit and its use.
    • Storage - Water bottle, chagul, pakhal, canvas, iron cisterns and water truck.
    • Water points
    • Water borne disease.
    02
     
  • (iv)
    Water supply
    05
     
  • (v)
    Spray techniques
    05
     
  • (vi)
    Various hygeine chemical, their dosage & usage
    05
     
  • 6.
    NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
    25
    18.75 Hrs
  • (i)
    • Food and nutrition
    • - Composition of food.
    • - Common articles of diet.
    02
     
  • (ii)
    Principles of Nutrition and Dietetics.
    02
     
  • (iii)
    Food requirements.
    03
     
  • (iv)
    • Cookery
    • - Reasons for cooking and dietetics.
    • - Effects of different methods on cooking.
    • - Storage of food in ward.
    05
     
  • (v)
    Preparation of tray and serving of food.
    02
     
  • (vi)
    • Preparation of
    • - Tea, coffee, cocoa, imperial drink, barley water, lemon squash, fruit juices.
    • - Lockey, junket curds, buttermilk, jelly ice cream, Eggs flip, albumin water.
    03
     
  • (vii)
    Calories, BMR and caloric requirements.
    02
     
  • (viii)
    Common articles of diet.
    01
     
  • (ix)
    Special diets.
    02
     
  • (x)
    Sick room recipes
    01
     
  • (xi)
    Nutritional diseases
    02
     
  • 7.
    BIO MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
    11
    8.25 Hrs
  • (xi)
    • - Definition, Hazards and infection control, Principles
    • - Categories of BMW
    • - Color coding
    • - Waste management in hospital
    • - Present scenario, System, Steps
    • - Waste treatment and disposal
    • - Bio safety
    02
     
  • 8.
    FIRST AID AND BANDAGING
    160
    120 Hrs
  • (i)
    Definition of first aid, scope, principles and essentials, methods of approach and qualifications of a first aider.
    10
     
  • (ii)
    First field dressing and shell dressing, routine dressing, bandaging including use of triangular bandage.
    08
     
  • (iii)
    • Fractures
    • - Varieties, general signs and symptoms, general rules for treatment, padding of splints, individual fractures and treatment. Thomas splint.
    15
     
  • (iv)
    Injuries to joints and muscles, sprains and strains
    07
     
  • (v)
    • Wounds
    • – Types, first aid and treatment.
    12
     
  • (vi)
    Snake bite, bite by rabid animal, and stings of insects.
    12
     
  • (vii)
    • Haemorrhage
    • - Varieties, arrest of external haemorrhage, arrest of haemorrhage from special regions, mouth, nose and ear.
    15
     
  • (viii)
    • Artificial respiration.
    10
     
  • (ix)
    • Asphyxia
    • - Definition and causes.
    07
     
  • (x)
    • Poisons, classification, general rules for the treatment of poisoning.
    20
     
  • (xi)
    • Burn injury
    08
     
  • (xii)
    • Shock
    08
     
  • (xiii)
    • Effects of heat and cold.
    08
     
  • (xiv)
    • BLS, ATLS, ACLS
    20
     
  • 9.
    DISASTER MANAGEMENT
    10
    7.5 Hrs
  • (i)
    • Introduction, Principle, Outline plan and disaster cycle
    01
     
  • (ii)
    • Basics of NBC warfare
    02
     
  • (iii)
    • Pre hospital phase, Hospital phase, Triage
    02
     
  • (iv)
    • Supportive services and misc- Respond of various organization, Disaster management protocol
    02
     
  • (v)
    • Effects and their management, Prevention and mitigation
    01
     
  • (vi)
    • Preparedness and response
    01
     
  • (vii)
    • Present setup
    01
     
  •  
    FIRST YEAR PAPER II
     
     
  • 10.
    ELEMENTARY NURSING
    275
    260.25Hrs
  • (i)
    • Bed making
    • - Materials used for hospital beds and bedding.
    • - Bed making.
    • - Special types of beds.
    • - Positions in bed.
    • - Moving and lifting of patients.
    • - Additional appliances used for beds.
    60
     
  • (ii)
    • Observation of patient's conditions
    • - Importance of habit of observation, positions, expressions, delirium, appetite, sleep, cough, expectoration, vomit, tongue, mouth and skin, fluid intake and output.
    • - Temperature, clinical thermometer and its care, taking of temperature, varieties of temperature.
    • - Pulse : Definition, character, how to take pulse, abnormal pulse.
    • - Respiration :Mechanism of normal respiration, measure rate of respiration.
    • - Recording of temperature, pulse and respiration on charts.
    • - Giving and writing of reports.
    60
     
  • (iii)
    • Caring of sick.
    • - Daily toilet of the patient, bathing in the bed and the bathroom.
    • - Care of hair and the mouth tray.
    • - Bed sores and tropic ulcers and their prevention.
    • - Giving of bedpans and urinals, spittoons.
    • - Feeding of the bed-ridden cases.
    50
     
  • (iv)
    • Aspiration and continuous drainage of stomach and duodenum.
    10
     
  • (v)
    • Artificial feeding
    05
     
  • (vi)
    • Administration of oxygen.
    05
     
  • (vii)
    • Inhalations.
    05
     
  • (viii)
    • Preparation of patient for examination.
    20
     
  • (ix)
    • Dressings and instruments commonly used in the wards.
    30
     
  • (x)
    • Prepare nursing trays and trolleys.
    30
     
  • 11.
    PHARMACOLOGY
    50
    37.5Hrs
  • (i)
    • Weights and measures.
    05
     
  • (ii)
    • Forms of medicament – powder, pills, lotions.
    05
     
  • (iii)
    • Mode of administration.
    20
     
  • (iv)
    • Common drugs used in OPDs and wards.
    20
     
  • 12.
    HUMAN RELATIONS
    15
    11.25Hrs
  • (i)
    • Hospital Public relation management
    • - Introduction, Human behaviour, PR
    • - Operation methods, KRA
    • - Communication skills
    • - Care of dying & dead
    05
     
  • (ii)
    • Doctors patient relationship
    • - Right & duties of patient
    • - Right & duties of doctors
    • - Consent
    • - CPA
    • - MLC
    • - Medical ethics
    • - The female patient
    08
     
  • 13.
    COMMUNITY HEALTH NSG & COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
    50
    37.5Hrs
  • (i)
    • Health Determinants
    01
     
  • (ii)
    • Indicators of Health
    01
     
  • (iii)
    • Levels of Health Care
    01
     
  • (iv)
    • Primary Health Care
    01
     
  • (v)
    • National Health Policy, National Population Policy
    01
     
  • (vi)
    • National Health Programmes
    • (i) NAMP
    • (ii) RCH
    • (iii) RNTCP
    • (iv) NACP
    • (v) Pulse Polio
    08
     
  • (vii)
    • Immunization schedule.
    05
     
  • (viii)
    • Preventable diseases
    • - Classification and mode of spread.
    • - Common disease and their prevention - diarrhoeas and dysenteries, malaria, rabies, round worm, small pox, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus, veneral diseases.
    15
     
  • (ix)
    • Life history and prevention against housefly and mosquito.
    02
     
  • (x)
    • Effects of heat and cold and their prevention.
    01
     
  • (xi)
    • Hygiene and sanitation of ward and ancillaries.
    02
     
  • (xii)
    • Infection, Isolation, Disinfection methods.
    02
     
  • (xiii)
    • Communicable diseases:
    • Nursing care -general management, Specific diseases : Diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, mumps, influenza, typhoid and paratyphoid, typhus, dysentery, food poisoning, cholera, plague, tetanus, malaria, dengue, HIV/AIDS.
    10
     
  • 14.
    EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT
    10
    7.5Hrs
  • (xiii)
    • - Pulse oximeter
    • - Nebulizer
    • - Glucometer
    • - ECG machine
    • - Cardiac monitor
    • - Defibrillator
    • - Total patient bed side monitor
    • - SWD
    • - Oxygen concentrator
    10
     
  • 15.
    PRACTICAL
     
    600Hrs
  • (i)
    • General duties -
    • - Tour of hospital and various departments
    • - Personal discipline.
    • - Ward discipline and discipline of the patients
    • - Standing orders.
    • - Admission procedure in MI Rooms and wards.
    • - Cleanliness of the ward, pantry and the sanitary block including materials used for cleaning.
    • - Sick parades.
    • - Care of the dying and the dead.
     
    100 Hrs
  • (ii)
    • Must be able to
    • - Clean ward and ancillaries.
    • - Write reports
    • - Take care of convalescent patients
     
    30 Hrs
  • (iii)
    • Must be able to maintain correctly –
    • - Charts.
    • - Case sheets.
    • - Other documents.
     
    30 Hrs
  • (iv)
    • Must be conversant with -
    • - Admission and discharge procedure.
    • - Standing orders.
    • - Storage, care and maintenance of linen, - utensils, crockery and furniture.
     
    100 Hrs
  • (v)
    • Local applications
    • - Hot application
    • - Application of cold.
    • - Poultices and plasters.
    • - Liniments, ointments, pastes and paints.
     
    50 Hrs
  • (vi)
    • General procedure
    • - General treatment for reducing temperature, methods of reducing temperature, sponging, cold packing, Brand's bath, ice cradling.
    • - Application of heat, hot baths, hot sponging, radiant heat, hot wet pack, hot dry pack, vapour bath, hot air bath, and medicated bath.
     
    100 Hrs
  • (vii)
    • Enema and lavage
    • - Enema : Varieties, how to administer enema.
    • - Flatus tube.
    • - Lavage : Rectum, colon and gastric lavage.
     
    40 Hrs
  • (viii)
    • Principles of sepsis and antisepsis
    • - General principles, definition and methods used.
    • - Preparations of hands and use of gloves.
    • - Sterilization of instruments, dressings, rubber goods, utensils, ligatures and sutures, sponges, mackintosh, towels, trays, syringes.
    • - Care and maintenance of the above.
     
    100 Hrs
  • (ix)
    • Disposal of waste products
    • - Faeces : Methods of disposal in permanent, semi permanent and temporary camps, deep and shallow trench latrines.
    • - Urine : Methods of disposal.
     
    50 Hrs