Bramstein School of Applied Studies

Home Health Aide

The Home Health Aide is an 83-hour program designed to prepare students for work in caring for individual withint he confinement of their home. This program is taught with a combination through lecture, DVDs, role-playing, and classroom lab practice; students learn procedural skills such as vital signs, bathing, dressing and positioning. The classroom is equipped with hospital beds and medical equipment to practice skills prior to the 8-hour clinical externship rotation.

• Provides health care tasks, personal hygiene services, housekeeping tasks and other related support services essential to the consumer’s health.
• Observes, records and reports all changes to supervisor. All HHA’s must demonstrate competence in performing the necessary skills and only perform those skills on the plan of care.

Central Sterile Processing Technician

The Central Sterile Processing Technician Certificate 780-hour program will prepare you to work on a team that maintains sterilization of all instrumentation and equipment – an essential part to uphold patient safety. Skills covered include how to decontaminate, prepare and sterilize instrument trays for surgical procedures, disinfect patient care equipment and the various methods of inventory control storage and distribution of sterile supplies and equipment.

Upon successful completion, you can sit for the EXAM to become a Certified Sterile Technician CSPT offered by the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA). Students completing this program could easily articulate into Surgical Technology. This program requires a 400-hour externship.