If you are wanting a career in healthcare that is integral to keeping a facility clean, Sterile Processing could be for you. Sterile Processing Technician is the core department within a healthcare facility in which medical/surgical supplies and equipment, both sterile and non-sterile, are decontaminated, processed, sterilized, stored and used for patient care.
The Sterile Processing Technician program at Central Coast College prepares you to enter a vital part of healthcare in just 34 weeks.
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At Central Coast College, our Sterile Processing Technician program is designed to prepare students to enter a medical career and play a critical role in preventing infection. Sterile Processing Technicians sterilize, clean, process, assemble, store, and distribute medical equipment and reusable surgical instrumentation, utilizing infection control and safety practices during all phases of the process.
This 34-week program provides students with intensive training emphasizing sterile processing standards and regulations, each phase of sterile processing, principles of aseptic and universal precaution techniques, sterile storage considerations and guidelines, compliance and handling records, and clinical experience. Students in the Sterile Processing Technician program learn from professional instructors and receive real-world on-the-job experience through Externship.
Graduates receive a Sterile Processing Technician certificate upon successful completion of the program.
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Sterile Processing Technician Program Courses Include:
- Basic Sciences for CST
- Infection Prevention & Decontamination
- Surgical Instrumentation
- Sterialization Methods & Procedures
- Quality Assurance
- Inventory Management & Communications
- Clinical Externship
Sterile Processing Technician Program Overview
- Total Weeks in program: 34 weeks
- Total Clock Hours: 686
- Classroom Hours: 200
- Lab Hours: 230
- Semester Credit Hours: 26
- Clinical Externship Hours: 256
- Teacher/Student ratio
- Class Lab: 1/35
- Clinical: 1/25
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