If you're looking to venture into the medical world, it is crucial to understand the proper process of sterilization.

There are no pre-requisites for this and anyone who has a high school diploma can sign up to learn the profession and get certified. As a sterile processing technician, you’ll work behind the scenes in the medical community. SPD Techs are some of the most important team members in a hospital’s arsenal–responsible for eliminating infections, maintaining supplies, and manually cleaning tools to be used in critical surgeries.

Suitable for experienced and/or aspiring medical professionals, this 75-hour (25 sessions x 3 hours) group TESDA Registered Certificate Program trains students to become a Sterilization Supply Technician (SST) under the Nursing Service Department.

Sterilization Supply Technicians (SST) play a critical role in keeping patients healthy by ensuring all medical instruments and equipment are sterile. Their work helps patients avoid infections while receiving treatment. They also maintain the functionality and inventory of health care and surgical equipment.

What you will learn:

• Sterilization methods
• Surgical terminology
• Infection control
• Human anatomy
• Microbiology
• Surgical instrumentation cleaning procedures, disinfection, sterilization
• Care and handling of disassembly of equipment, and surgical instruments
• Safety and risk control
• Joint Commission International (JCI) standard-setting
• Accreditation efforts in managing human and financial resources
• Products (supplies), time, work processes, and facilities
• Professional attitude, and patient safety
• Regulations issued by regulatory agencies and voluntary standards issued by other organizations

After completing this sterile processing technician training, there are a plethora of places you can work in this field. Hospitals, dentists, outpatient care centers, specialty care centers, and ambulatory services centers all employ these allied health workers. Anywhere that medical equipment is used, there’s a need to have it properly handled by central sterile technicians.