Surgical Technology Background Checks
Background checks on each student are required by clinical sites to protect patients and the public. Schools reserve the right to repeat background checks if needed. The background checks, dissemination of self-disclosure information, background check results and conviction records, whether in or outside the State of Oklahoma, may be provided to the clinical sites during the completion of the academic program.
Criminal background checks are required for students entering the Surgical Technology Program. The program requires clinical rotations in a healthcare facility. Students with felony, sex offender, or violent offender conviction are prohibited from training in health care facilities if the conviction is reflected on their OSBI or other agency background check. This policy is based on a standard of the Joint Commission (TJC), which requires healthcare organizations to verify criminal background information on students who provide care, treatment, and services to patients/clients during clinical activities. Student eligibility for clinical activities is determined by the affiliated clinical agencies based on the CBC. Inability to participate in clinical activities prohibit successful completion of clinical courses and therefore prohibits program progression, since the classroom and clinical courses must be successfully completed in the same semester.
Exclusionary Criteria for Clinical Placement
Misdemeanor/Felony crimes against persons:
- Murder in the first-degree
- International second-degree murder
- Capital murder
- Domestic battery
- Murder in the first-degree
- Aggravated kidnapping
- Murder in the first degree; Conspiracy
- Murder in the second degree (reckless)
- Murder in the first degree; Solicitation
- Voluntary manslaughter
- Kidnapping
- Aggravated robbery
- Aggravated battery on LEO-intentional, great bodily harm
- Injury to a pregnant woman in the commission of a felony
- Aggravated battery – intentional, great bodily harm
- Injury to a pregnant woman in commission, battery or sexual battery
- Involuntary manslaughter
- Robbery
- Aggravated battery – reckless, great bodily harm
- Aggravated assault on law enforcement officer
- Mistreatment of a dependent adult – physical
- Aggravated assault
- Aggravated interference with parental custody
- Blackmail
- Battery against a correctional officer
- Battery against a youth center officer
- Battery against a juvenile detention officer
- Battery against a city/county correctional officer/employee
- Aggravated battery – intentional, bodily harm
- Aggravated battery – intentional, physical contact
- Stalking when the offender has a previous conviction within 7 years for stalking the same victim
- Aggravated battery – reckless, bodily harm
- Assisting suicide
- Criminal threat
- Stalking in all other cases
Interference with parental custody in all other case.