Copyright: 2024

Virginia Assignment Code: 8391

Suggested Grade Level: 12

Duration: 36 weeks

Hours: 280

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: 8367

CTSO: HOSA-Future Health Professionals

Course Description:

This course focuses on the materials and equipment management aspects of sterile processing technician careers. Students will learn about communicating in the healthcare workplace and acquire cardiopulmonary resuscitation/automated external defibrillator (CPR/AED) and sterile processing certifications.  

Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Students will complete a 400-hour clinical experience, which requires the completion of 200 hours by high school graduation and 200 hours within six months of earning a provisional certification. Note: Following completion of the additional 200 hours, full certification is obtained.

Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/health-science/15766/