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CA HR35

Resolution

Official Source

Status

Introduced

8/17/2010

Primary Sponsor

Diane Harkey

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Origin

State Assembly

2009-2010 Session

AI Summary

  • Designates the week of September 19-25, 2010, as National Surgical Technologist Week in California
  • Recognizes the Association of Surgical Technologists, founded in 1969 as a nonprofit educational association
  • Notes approximately 5,000 of the nation's 90,000 surgical technologists work in California, with about 1,400 holding professional certification
  • Acknowledges surgical technologists' role in preventing surgical site infections, which are the second most common hospital-acquired infections in the United States
  • Directs the Assembly Chief Clerk to distribute copies of the resolution to the author

Legislative Description

Relative to National Surgical Technologist Week.

Last Action

Read and adopted. (Page 6867.).

8/30/2010

Full Bill Text

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