Sterilization Assistant
HYBRID | TUITION $1,800 | LIMITED CAPACITY
Your Gateway to a Rewarding Healthcare Career Begins Here!
Course Overview
The Sterilization Assistant program provides a consistent approach to the application of quality and safety in the reprocessing of medical devices. It focuses on reducing the potential of adverse events that can impact safe patient care and reducing incidences of damage to medical devices and sterilization equipment.
Developed by leading experts with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) with institutional and clinically applied experience, this course upholds infection prevention protocol. Discover how you can not only meet but exceed these stringent standards, ensuring top-tier safety and care.
Key Benefits of Sterilization Assistants
- Enhanced Safety: Uphold patient and staff safety by aligning with AB's IPC standards.
- Distinguished Practice: Stand out among your peers by investing in a safe, high-quality service.
- Cost Efficiency: Prolong the lifespan of medical devices and instruments, ultimately trimming your operating expenses.
What You'll Learn
- Infection Prevention: How to apply fundamental infection prevention and control principles and practices to their daily work, ensuring a safe environment for patients.
- Reprocessing Skills: Proficiently handle the transportation, disassembly, cleaning, disinfection, assembly, function testing, packaging, and sterilization of medical devices in community healthcare settings like dentistry and non-accredited medical clinics.
- Quality Assurance: Perform quality assurance testing measures to guarantee that reprocessed medical devices are safe and reliable for patient use.
- Documentation: Understand the essential documentation required for tracking and recording reprocessing activities, ensuring compliance and accountability.
- Equipment Maintenance: Comprehend the requirements for routine and preventative maintenance of automated reprocessing equipment, including troubleshooting skills to keep equipment in optimal working condition.
Outcome
Upon completion you will be able to:
- Apply basic infection prevention and control principles and practices to everyday practice.
- Safely and effectively transport, disassembly, clean, disinfection, assembly, function testing, package and sterilization of medical devices in a community setting (dentistry, non-accredited medical clinics).
- Perform quality assurance testing measures to ensure medical devices are safe to use.
- Understand the minimum required documentation of reprocessing activities.
- Understand the requirements for routine and preventative maintenance of all automated reprocessing equipment including basic troubleshooting.
The Sterilization Assistant course is open to the general public and is intended for those pursuing a career in healthcare.
Career Impact
If you have a passion for oral health-care, then this program is tailor-made for you. We truly believe that the more passionate you are, the richer your experience and knowledge gained from this program will be.
Who is this for?
Pursuing a Career in Health Care
This course is ideal for those who want to pursue a career in health care. We teach valuable skills that can help you find employment in Dental Offices, Medical Offices and even Veterinary Offices were you can earn an average of $21/hour starting out with room to grow!
- Certified Registered Service Technician Career Path: By completing this course and gaining practical experience you can challenge the CRCST exam - the average annual salary for a CRCST is $57,000!
- Office Manager Service Career Path: Typically the office manager in a Dental Office is also the IPC manager. Get a head start on your management trajectory by becoming the source of sterilization knowledge in your office!
Meeting continuing professional education requirements
If you're a registered dental hygienist or registered dental assistant, this course is an affordable option to meet your learning objective or CE requirements while refreshing your IPC skills. RDHs can earn up to 40 CE credit hours from this course.Training your team to meet Alberta's IPC standards
Having a dedicated team trained with the latest in sterilization techniques goes a long way in reducing your practice's exposure to risks and providing lasting benefits.Course Delivery: Hybrid (Online and In-Person)
Curriculum: Online
Final Exam: In-person
Practicum: 2-day in-person at Kaye Edmonton Clinic & 2-day in-person at a private practice (4 days total, daytime & evening hours - dates to be arranged with participant upon final exam completion).
Faculty
Cody graduated from Medical Device Reprocessing Technology in 2004 and holds CSA certification as a CMDRT.
With 19 years of medical device reprocessing technology experience, including over 10 years of progressive leadership, he has supported medical device reprocessing departments in Tertiary, Regional and rural facilities as well as dental offices.
Having completed over $60 million in Medical Device Reprocessing department design and construction projects Cody has become a leader in sterilization and now sits as a member of the Canadian Standards Association Certifying Exam Scheme Committee.
In more recent years he has been conducting community based medical clinic IPC MDR reviews, gained further experience in an Infection Prevention Control role, and regularly presents and hosts multiple provincial MDR conferences.
Leveraging his wealth of experience Cody Dingreville led the development of this course.
important considerations for participants
- This course has a continuous intake registration process, this means that students are able to purchase, register, and complete the course at their earliest convenience.
- Please note, participants will not be eligible for a refund or withdrawal of the program once access to the online eClass curriculum has been granted. If a participant should choose to request a refund or to withdraw from the program, a 20% admissions fee will be deducted from the $1,800.00.
For any additional information or questions see our FAQ or email the program coordinator: Beth Omeasoo at dentce@ualberta.ca or call them at (825) 977-8844.