Tips for Skill 14

This skill will require you to remove sutures and surgical staples. Upon completion of this skill, you will be able to choose the correct equipment for removal of sutures and staples and then properly remove them from the patient.

Tips for materials that need to be submitted:

• Video of the student removing sutures from one patient

  • The sutures need to be removed from a live patient. You cannot use a model

• Video of the student removing staples from one patient

  • Staple removal can be performed on a banana or a huck towel

Accepted Levels of Sedation for Suture and Staple Removal:

• Awake to light sedation

  • Light sedation: patients can move their heads or wag their tails