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Central Service Processing Technician
The Central Service Processing Technician program at Swedish Institute (also known as Sterile Processing Technician) provides students with the knowledge and hands-on training that helps prepare them for entry into this career field and be an integral part ensuring medical equipment and supplies are properly cared for, sterilized, and stored. Students will develop skills necessary to properly disinfect, decontaminate, prepare, process, store, issue both sterile and nonsterile supplies and equipment for patient care. Upon successful completion of the didactic and laboratory courses, students will also complete a mandatory clinical 420-hour externship.
The Swedish Institute Central Service Processing Technician program meets the requirements of the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (IAHCSMM). As a result, graduates of the Central Service Processing Technician program are eligible to sit for the Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) examination.
The Central Service Processing Technician program is available in a 3-quarter course sequence. The classes are held during weekday evening hours so that you can begin your career in as little as 9 months. The clinical practicum externship hours are scheduled in the day.
Central Service Processing Technicians are an integral part of the medical team in preparing medical instruments and supplies for surgical procedures in hospital operating rooms and similar environments. Duties and responsibilities may include preparing and assembling instruments for distribution, processing supplies and equipment from operating rooms, surgical centers, ambulatory facilities, and nursing units, sterilizing as well as decontaminate medical instruments and equipment.
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