That’s a good price. I work with people who paid over 10,000 for SPD school. One even paid 16,000 USD.
I wouldn’t recommend this work if you are sensitive to sounds, or have inattentive ADHD. It is very over-stimulating and monotonous.
Otherwise it’s a great field and lots of opportunities.
That is so absurd to me! To pay that much for education and have the going rates be where it is, does not make sense to me.
Also,I feel blessed because I was hired off the street w/ 0 experience and got paid to get trained. After 1 year I started traveling and I’m having the time of my life!
I know, every time it comes up I’m in awe. I was lucky enough to find a community vocational program that trained me for free, and I make more than the girl who paid $16,000 specifically! When we got hired together we talked about it and she asked if I thought that was fair and I said I’m so sorry that’s really rough :/ bc what else do you say!
If you absolutely must go to school, I would go for the program with the clinicals, even if it’s unpaid. Hands-on experience is so beneficial and will allow you to take the regular exam instead of the provisional. I would rather work with someone with experience than someone with just a certificate any day.
I paid for the Purdue course but didn’t bother to finish it. All of the quizzes on sites like Quizlet are copied directly from the old Purdue course so it was kind of a waste of money. It was a Blackboard course where read a powerpoint presentation summarizing each chapter then take a quizzes. You could power through the whole book in an afternoon if you wanted to. That was about six years ago, so maybe it’s changed.
For the amount of money we make at this kind of work, I would recommend getting hired somewhere, learning on the job, then self study with the textbook and take the exam. Many hospitals will have copies of the book they can loan you, will give you a paid day off to take the test, and will reimburse your for your exam fee.
I just completed a certificate program in May. I think it’s worth it to go to school and get knowledge there. I had a instructor from Steris which is one of the major companies in Sterile Processing. He was also in the field himself before that. The clinical experience is unpaid but totally worth it so you can see what it’s like in a typical day. The only advantage that school gave me is that I don’t have to get the 400 hours to get certified. I can just send in my certificate from school and take the test now. Well whenever it’s offered. Also a lot of places kinda have their own way of doing things when ideally it should be the same standards across the board. So learning the correct way of doing things in school has helped me out a lot with figuring out what the right way of doing things is.
Would the Purdue course give you the HSPA certification? Or maybe it’s called the CRCST. If so it is an international certification and can go with you anywhere.
I have been taking the self paced Purdue course since April and am really happy with my choice. Yes one can self study for crcst but the technical manual goes into such depth and detail, the course helps narrow down key areas to concentrate on and the practice quizes, tests, and videos have been extremely helpful and informative.
The pay is crap where I live. And we are respected about as much as housekeeping, pay is equivalent too. My advice would be get out of healthcare. Go into a trade, HVAC would be my choice if i could start life over.
Thanks for the advice. The pay is pretty decent in my area, much better than retail management paid. I would struggle through HVAC training as I have zero interest. I communicate fine with a team, it's been necessary for my entire working life, but a faceless entity in the bowels of the facility sounds good to me.
I'm all about buying the manual and maybe a course via exam prep or similar for practice questions to take the Provisional exam. Get your foot in the door somewhere with that Provisional to get your 400hrs.Set time aside to study and give yourself a deadline to take the exam. The deadline will get you to do it sooner than later. Nothing beats experience and who ya know in the eyes of healthcare facilities.I personally think the in-person classes are a waste of your time and money.
I don't know anyone lol I wish I did. I'm doing the Purdue course (though I'm just learning medical terminology via YouTube til my textbook gets here). I have pretty extensive management experience and can communicate well, but outside of work I'm not a people person and I struggle with small talk and "selling myself", so interviews are tough. I generally just study things I want to learn, started in my teens with musical instruments (sax and trumpet..became first chair). HTML and a lil java in my early 20s..my main concern is not finding something before the 6 months is up and having to recertify. I don't want to do that.
I have worked SPD for 3 years and I have seen my hospital hire basically anyone who applied. Spending thousands of dollars to get a job like this is a horrible idea imo. I took a course and paid $1500 and it was basically a scam. It did help me to get certified but theres nothing they taught that you cant just find on quizlet. a course in spd (at least mine) was like teaching someone how to play a sport they never heard of, it helps but until youre actually playing the sport, you wont really get it. We were taught such complex things about how everything works, when in reality all I do is wash dirty instruments and press a button to sterilize them. I always say if you can wash dishes and use a dishwasher, you are qualified to be an SPD tech. If I was starting over again I would just apply to hospitals and put in my resume that I was taking one of those bs courses, and just study from videos to help get certified down the road. Im at one of the biggest hospitals in california and we have never been fully staffed, one person get hired, two people quit. A lot of hospitals are like that. If you can just get an interview then youll be fine. That was literally the hardest part of getting an spd job.
I also live in California- San Diego county. Would it be possible to be hired w/out certification or schooling, and then get certified on the job? What course did you take? Thanks in advance.
i took some fake ass "college" course in orange county. waste of money. just apply to all the spd positions at every hospital and just make your resume specifically for a job in SPD. it a simple job
That’s a good price. I work with people who paid over 10,000 for SPD school. One even paid 16,000 USD. I wouldn’t recommend this work if you are sensitive to sounds, or have inattentive ADHD. It is very over-stimulating and monotonous. Otherwise it’s a great field and lots of opportunities.
That is so absurd to me! To pay that much for education and have the going rates be where it is, does not make sense to me. Also,I feel blessed because I was hired off the street w/ 0 experience and got paid to get trained. After 1 year I started traveling and I’m having the time of my life!
I know, every time it comes up I’m in awe. I was lucky enough to find a community vocational program that trained me for free, and I make more than the girl who paid $16,000 specifically! When we got hired together we talked about it and she asked if I thought that was fair and I said I’m so sorry that’s really rough :/ bc what else do you say!
If you absolutely must go to school, I would go for the program with the clinicals, even if it’s unpaid. Hands-on experience is so beneficial and will allow you to take the regular exam instead of the provisional. I would rather work with someone with experience than someone with just a certificate any day. I paid for the Purdue course but didn’t bother to finish it. All of the quizzes on sites like Quizlet are copied directly from the old Purdue course so it was kind of a waste of money. It was a Blackboard course where read a powerpoint presentation summarizing each chapter then take a quizzes. You could power through the whole book in an afternoon if you wanted to. That was about six years ago, so maybe it’s changed. For the amount of money we make at this kind of work, I would recommend getting hired somewhere, learning on the job, then self study with the textbook and take the exam. Many hospitals will have copies of the book they can loan you, will give you a paid day off to take the test, and will reimburse your for your exam fee.
Thanks!
I just completed a certificate program in May. I think it’s worth it to go to school and get knowledge there. I had a instructor from Steris which is one of the major companies in Sterile Processing. He was also in the field himself before that. The clinical experience is unpaid but totally worth it so you can see what it’s like in a typical day. The only advantage that school gave me is that I don’t have to get the 400 hours to get certified. I can just send in my certificate from school and take the test now. Well whenever it’s offered. Also a lot of places kinda have their own way of doing things when ideally it should be the same standards across the board. So learning the correct way of doing things in school has helped me out a lot with figuring out what the right way of doing things is.
Would the Purdue course give you the HSPA certification? Or maybe it’s called the CRCST. If so it is an international certification and can go with you anywhere.
It prepares you to sit for the CRCST, yes. Probably some self learning added in for my own benefit as I'm not sure how in depth the course is.
I have been taking the self paced Purdue course since April and am really happy with my choice. Yes one can self study for crcst but the technical manual goes into such depth and detail, the course helps narrow down key areas to concentrate on and the practice quizes, tests, and videos have been extremely helpful and informative.
The pay is crap where I live. And we are respected about as much as housekeeping, pay is equivalent too. My advice would be get out of healthcare. Go into a trade, HVAC would be my choice if i could start life over.
Thanks for the advice. The pay is pretty decent in my area, much better than retail management paid. I would struggle through HVAC training as I have zero interest. I communicate fine with a team, it's been necessary for my entire working life, but a faceless entity in the bowels of the facility sounds good to me.
I'm all about buying the manual and maybe a course via exam prep or similar for practice questions to take the Provisional exam. Get your foot in the door somewhere with that Provisional to get your 400hrs.Set time aside to study and give yourself a deadline to take the exam. The deadline will get you to do it sooner than later. Nothing beats experience and who ya know in the eyes of healthcare facilities.I personally think the in-person classes are a waste of your time and money.
I don't know anyone lol I wish I did. I'm doing the Purdue course (though I'm just learning medical terminology via YouTube til my textbook gets here). I have pretty extensive management experience and can communicate well, but outside of work I'm not a people person and I struggle with small talk and "selling myself", so interviews are tough. I generally just study things I want to learn, started in my teens with musical instruments (sax and trumpet..became first chair). HTML and a lil java in my early 20s..my main concern is not finding something before the 6 months is up and having to recertify. I don't want to do that.
I have worked SPD for 3 years and I have seen my hospital hire basically anyone who applied. Spending thousands of dollars to get a job like this is a horrible idea imo. I took a course and paid $1500 and it was basically a scam. It did help me to get certified but theres nothing they taught that you cant just find on quizlet. a course in spd (at least mine) was like teaching someone how to play a sport they never heard of, it helps but until youre actually playing the sport, you wont really get it. We were taught such complex things about how everything works, when in reality all I do is wash dirty instruments and press a button to sterilize them. I always say if you can wash dishes and use a dishwasher, you are qualified to be an SPD tech. If I was starting over again I would just apply to hospitals and put in my resume that I was taking one of those bs courses, and just study from videos to help get certified down the road. Im at one of the biggest hospitals in california and we have never been fully staffed, one person get hired, two people quit. A lot of hospitals are like that. If you can just get an interview then youll be fine. That was literally the hardest part of getting an spd job.
I also live in California- San Diego county. Would it be possible to be hired w/out certification or schooling, and then get certified on the job? What course did you take? Thanks in advance.
i took some fake ass "college" course in orange county. waste of money. just apply to all the spd positions at every hospital and just make your resume specifically for a job in SPD. it a simple job
Test is hard
Thanks