HED0720 — Advanced Clinical Applications
This capstone course provides continued hands-on clinical experience in a central sterilization processing department and emphasizes the student's ability to demonstrate distribution, sterile storage, and case cart preparation in the clinical setting with minimal supervision. This course provides clinical experience in the central sterile environment in preparation for practice as a certified central sterile technician. This course has 135 hours toward the 400 clinical hours required for the IAHCSMM Certification Exam, and clinical experience in distribution, sterile storage, and case cart preparation.