Certificate Program (40 Quarter Credits / 29 Weeks / 712 Clock Hours )

The Sterile Processing program at MCI Institute is based on the Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) training requirements and complies with its policies and procedures in preparing students for the certification exam mandated in the State of New Jersey by Department of Health and Senior Services in order to enter the profession. Method of program delivery is residential. This program prepares graduates to work as a skilled Registered Central Service Technicians in hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and endoscopy colonoscopy clinics. Essential functions of a Registered Central Service Technicians are; to sterilize, package, test and operate medical equipment and surgical instruments, stock and maintain equipment processing rooms, prepare surgical carts with surgical supplies and instrument trays as well as prepare and maintain records and logs associated with medical instruments and equipment.​

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Objectives of the program:

• Teaching courses in terminology, anatomy, physiology, law, ethics, federal & state regulations and standards, cleaning, decontamination, sterilization, packaging, storage, inventory management, safety and ambulatory surgery practices.

• Providing clinical activities within on-campus work-simulated training laboratories that includes knowledge and proper use of decontamination and sterilization equipment, proper chemical disinfection, flash sterilization, high and low temperature sterilization of basic and complex surgical instrumentation, communication and human relation skills.

• Providing students with off campus clinical externship experience that includes a supervised hands-on training (requiring competencies logs and evaluations) at the clinical sites (hospitals and surgical centers).

At the completion of the program the diligent student will be:

• Proficient in performing entry-level Sterile Technician tasks and responsibilities.

• Awarded a Certificate of Completion.

• Establish eligibility to test for the Certified Registered Central Processing Technician’s credentialing exam administered by The International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management

• Able to seek an entry-level employment in facilities such as hospitals and outpatient surgical centers, dental clinics and endoscopy/colonoscopy suites after passing credentialing exams.

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