Central Sterile Supply

Certificate
30 Credit Hours

Purpose
The Central Sterile Supply Technician Certificate Program is designed to introduce the primary responsibilities of a sterile processing technician including practical application of learned concepts and procedures. Experience instrument identification, preparation, storage, and distribution of supplies and equipment. Four-hundred clinical hours are required. The program will prepare the student to take the national certification exam.

Anyone working in the Central Sterile Supply Department of a hospital and needing to take the certification exam to maintain their employment may take only AH 130, AH 135, and AH 160 All other students must take all the required courses in the program.

The full Central Sterile Supply Technician Certificate Program is available on the Logan Campus. The Boone/Lincoln, Williamson, and Wyoming/McDowell campuses offer the program support courses only.

Dept/No.	Title	Credit Hours
Support Courses
AH 200	Health Care Ethics and Law	1
BS 118	Essentials of Human Systems for Allied Health	4
BS 127	Microbiology for Allied Health	3
CS 103	Introduction to Applications	1
EN 101	English Composition I	3
EN 102	English Composition II	3

Major Courses
AH 130	Introduction to Sterile Processing	2
AH 135	Surgical Instrumentation	3
AH 160	Sterile Processing II	2
AH 165	Sterile Processing Practicum I	4
AH 167	Sterile Processing Practicum II	4