{"id":51028,"date":"2016-10-04T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=51028"},"modified":"2019-02-21T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:28:42","slug":"kapiolani-ccs-surgical-technologist-program-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/04\/kapiolani-ccs-surgical-technologist-program-receives-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u02bbolani <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>\u2019s surgical technologist program receives merit award"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_33358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33358\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/kapiolani-cc-great-lawn.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Lawn, a large area of grass encompassed by the campus buildings\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/kapiolani-cc-great-lawn.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/kapiolani-cc-great-lawn-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) Program at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> has received the annual merit award for achieving a 100 percent graduate pass rate on the certified surgical technologist examination cycle. The cycle ran from August 1, 2015 through July 31, 2016. <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s <abbr title=\"Certified Surgical Technologist\">CST<\/abbr> Program is the only non-credit accredited program of its kind in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nbstsa.org\/\">National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting<\/a> has a 40-year history in <abbr>CST<\/abbr> examination development. The examination is a fully accredited by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.credentialingexcellence.org\/ncca\">National Commission for Certifying Agencies<\/a> for surgical technologists. <abbr title=\"National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting\">NBSTSA<\/abbr> stated in a news brief that &ldquo;certification as a surgical technologist exhibits professional pride, the desire to be recognized for mastery of surgical competencies, and most importantly an ongoing commitment to quality patient care.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia O&#8217;Hagan<\/strong>, dean of emergency medical services, health sciences and nursing at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> attributes the success of the program to <strong>Tony Choy<\/strong> of the nursing department &ldquo;who has worked very hard to deliver a stellar program where the graduates become an integral part of the team of medical practitioners providing surgical care to patients.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only non-credit accredited program of its kind in Hawai&#699;i received the annual merit award for achieving 100 percent graduate pass rate on the <abbr title=\"Certified Surgical Technologist\">CST<abbr> examination cycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[142,63,189,71],"class_list":["post-51028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-award","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-nursing","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51028"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91174,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions\/91174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}