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: