Sterile Processing Technician

If you want a healthcare career that is integral to keeping a facility clean, Sterile Processing could be for you. Sterile Processing Technician is the core department within a healthcare facility in which medical/surgical supplies and equipment, both sterile and non-sterile, are decontaminated, processed, sterilized, stored and used for patient care.

With Integrity College of Health’s Hybrid, Hands-on, and Online courses, you can get the training you need for this rewarding healthcare career in as few as 32 weeks!

At Integrity College of Health, our Sterile Processing Technician program is designed to prepare students to enter a medical career and play a critical role in preventing infection. Sterile Processing Technicians sterilize, clean, process, assemble, store, and distribute medical equipment and reusable surgical instrumentation, utilizing infection control and safety practices during all phases of the process.

This 32-week program provides students with intensive training emphasizing sterile processing standards and regulations, each phase of sterile processing, principles of aseptic and universal precaution techniques, sterile storage considerations and guidelines, compliance and handling records, and clinical externship experience.

Students in the Sterile Processing Technician Program learn:

• Basic Sciences for CST
• Infection Prevention & Decontamination
• Surgical Instrumentation
• Sterilization Methods & Procedures
• Quality Assurance
• Inventory Management & Communications
• Clinical Externship

Graduates receive a Sterile Processing Technician certificate upon successful completion of the program.

Sterile Processing Technician Program Overview:

• Total Weeks in program: 32 weeks
• Semester Credit Hours: 27.5 hours
• Total Clock Hours: 830
  • Classroom Hours: 200
  • Lab Hours: 230
  • Clinical Externship Hours: 400

If you do not have a high school diploma, we offer the Eligible Career Pathway Programs (ECPP). Students will have the opportunity to earn their high school diploma while being concurrently enrolled in an eligible ECPP program.

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