Sterile Processing Technician

Overview

Program Tuition: $3,950.00

The Sterile Processing Technician program is designed to prepare students to function as a sterile processing professional in multiple healthcare settings. Sterile Processing technicians perform and participate in decontamination, cleaning, assembling, packaging, scanning, sterilization, storage, and distribution of reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.

This course coversthe following key areas and topics:

• SPD functions and safety precautions
• Health and safety regulations, standards, and guidelines that apply to the processing of medical devices and instrumentation
• Anatomy and physiology relate to the work performed in the sterile processing department
• Basic factors in disease transmission and defenses against infection
• Regulated medical waste and non-infectious waste
• Bloodborne pathogens
• Quality decontamination processes
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) as it relates to OSHA regulations and employee safety and health
• Chemical disinfection functions
• Disinfecting agents used in the decontamination process
• Disassembly, cleaning, disinfecting, inspecting, reassembling, testing, storing, and distributing movable patient care equipment
• Instruments sets, preparating basins and textile packs