Program Details

Central Service Technician
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Blackhawk Technical College
Central Service Technicians (CST) are the key persons responsible for maintaining the quality of medical products that are processed, packaged, and sterilized by a hospital. This program will prepare individuals to clean, sterilize, and assemble surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies for use in operating rooms and other medical and surgical facilities. The content includes instruction in sterilization, infection control, decontamination, and surgical instrumentation processing, distribution, and record keeping. The CST program shares the Medical Terminology course with the Surgical Technology program, along with many of the same clinical sites. This overlap will give students exposure to the Surgical Technician job role. Upon successful completion of the Central Service Technician program, students will be qualified to sit for the HSPA (Healthcare sterile processing association) Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification exam. Show More

This program is offered

ongoing
BTC Career Services helps students explore careers, prepare for the job application process and find current opportunities. BTC offers resume writing, mock interviews, job search techniques, and internships, when available.
Blackhawk Technical College provides free tutoring services to credit students enrolled at the college. We offer online, open lab and peer tutoring. Also counseling services are available.

In order to receive refunds, you must formally request refunds from Registration and Records by notifying them of your intent to drop a class(es) or completely withdraw from all classes. Requests for refunds must be received during the same term of enrollment. In the event of extenuating circumstances, you should meet with the Registrar and be prepared to provide documentation / evidence supporting your request.

Program Enrollments and Completions
32
19
5 (29%)
5 (100%)
Employment Outcomes (Completions Only)
4 (75%)
$10,081
$9,875
2 (49%)
$11,491

PLEASE NOTE:

If there are fewer than eight enrollments in the training program, only the "Enrollments" number will be displayed; all other data is hidden in order to help protect the students' identities. The "Employment Outcomes" are calculated using information from Wisconsin's Unemployment Insurance Wage database. Most employers are required to report certain employment information to the State of Wisconsin, including quarterly wage information for their employees. Students whose information could not be verified in this database are excluded from these outcomes. If a "0" shows for any of these outcomes, it means that none of the students' information could be verified.

MAKING SENSE OF THE EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES:

"Average quarterly wages" means the total wages earned in a three-month period by all students who completed the program ("completers"), divided by the total number of completers.

"Median quarterly wages" means all the completers' quarterly wages are placed in order from lowest to highest and then we identify the student's wages in the middle. This information is provided because averages can be greatly influenced by really high and low wage earners.

To estimate monthly wages, divide the quarterly wages by three.


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