COURSE CODE: 8391

Sterile Processing Technician II

SCED Code: 14201
Virginia Extended Description: II
Suggested Grade Level: 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 280
Credits: 2
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: HOSA-Future Health Professionals
Non-Traditional?: M

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.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Diagnostic Services
  • Medical Equipment Preparers
Therapeutic Services
  • Medical Equipment Preparers

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