Start your future in healthcare as the first line of defense against infection.

​Sterile Processing Technicians—also known as Central Supply Technicians or Medical Equipment Preparers—play a critical role in patient safety. They work behind the scenes in hospitals, outpatient surgery centers, physician offices, dental offices, and other ambulatory care settings to ensure medical instruments and equipment are safe for use.

This 80-hour blended-learning program is offered in two formats:

Blended Learning: This format combines the ease of online learning with 12 hours of in-person laboratory training. Online classes are taught in real time by a live instructor in a virtual classroom using Zoom. Students actively engage with their instructor and classmates through interactive lessons, demonstrations, and discussion—no self-paced or pre-recorded content. In-person lab days provide hands-on experience with instrument handling, decontamination, assembly, and sterilization processes.

In-Person Learning: Students actively engage with their instructor and classmates through interactive lessons, demonstrations, and discussion—no self-paced or pre-recorded content. Hands-on experience will include instrument handling, decontamination, assembly, and sterilization processes.

What You’ll Learn

• Decontaminate, disinfect, and sterilize medical instruments
• Assemble, inspect, and package surgical instruments and trays
• Store and distribute sterile supplies
• Apply infection prevention and safety standards
• Support operating rooms and clinical departments

Program Requirements

• Access to internet, a PC, laptop, or tablet, and a printer required
• 18 years+
• High School Diploma or GED

Purchased Separately

• Textbook
• Scrubs (any shade of blue) for lab days
• Certification exam fee

Certification

Professional certification is highly recommended. This program prepares students to pursue certification through:

• CBSPD (Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution)*, or
• HSPA (Healthcare Sterile Processing Association)**

*This program meets the requirements and specifically prepares students to sit for the CBSPD exam. Hands-on hours in sterile processing are not a requirement for the CBSPD exam provided you successfully complete the Sterile Processing Technician program.
** HSPA requires 400-hours hands-on experience in a sterile processing department.  Students may sit for the exam and receive a provisional credential provided they complete 400-hours of hands-on experience within 6 months of passing the exam.

Salary Information

$66,663 Annual Mean Wage in California.  Source: EDD Labor Market Information Division – Home Page
$38,816 Annual Mean Wage in Georgia.  Source: www.salary.org

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