Patient Care Assistant

Patient Care Technician – 625 Hours

Start your career in one of healthcare’s most in demand positions as a Patient Care Technician. Through the use of Live Instruction and Hybrid Training, you will receive comprehensive knowledge of patient care skills that will prepare you to handle multiple duties and responsibilities in a hospital/specialty health care environment.

Upon completion of our program students will be eligible for employment as advanced cross trained nursing assistants (patient care technicians), Health Technologists and Technicians, Health Care Technicians, Patient Care Assistants, Nursing Aides and Orderlies, Home Health Aides, or Allied Health Assistants and more. Student will also be eligible to sit for the Florida Board of Nursing Certified Nursing Assistant Exam (CNA) & the National Healthcare Association (NHA) Certified Patient Care Technician Certification (CPCT/A).

Our Patient Care Technician (PCT) program is broken up into individual components courses. Students must complete all courses to receive their FSCJ Certificate of Completion for the program and sit for the National Healthcare Association’s Certified Patient Care Technician Certification.

7 Courses include:

1. Basic Health Care Worker 2. Nursing Assistant Training 3. Advanced Home Health Aide 4. Patient Care Assistant 5. Allied Health Assistant 6. Advanced Allied Health Assistant 7. Patient Care Technician

Course #1: CCE 0796 Basic Health Care Worker

This course is an introduction to the health care environment, students training will focus on the health care team and delivery systems. You will learn and discuss topics including legal responsibilities, ethical issues, safety and security, information technology applications in healthcare, emergencies, infection control, communication, interpersonal behaviors, employability skills, blood borne diseases, wellness, disease and basic math and science.

Course #2: HED 0101 Nursing Assistant Training

This course trains students in overall concept of being a nursing assistant. The content addressed in this course prepares you to work with people of various ages and cultures and establishes a foundation of basic skills that extends the students understanding of their role in healthcare. The course includes interactive activities, simulated laboratory experiences and hands-on experience in a designated clinical setting.

** Upon completion of this course students will be able to sit for the Florida Board of Nursing Assistant (CNA) exam.

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Course #3: HED 0710 Advanced Home Health Aide

This course provides the student with advanced knowledge and skillsets necessary to perform physical comfort and safety, infection control, and nutrition in the home setting. This course also reviews normal growth and development from infancy through death.

Course #4: HED 0711 Patient Care Assistant

This course is designed to provide students with job related skills and knowledge of the structure and function, interrelatedness and needs of the human body systems. Patient care activities of daily living, health and hygiene are provided for all age groupings with particular emphasis on the patient in the hospital setting.

Course #5: HED 0712 Allied Health Assistant

This course is designed to provide additional skills for becoming a multi-skilled health care worker in clinical settings and the laboratory. This course will orient individuals to the structure and function of the human body as well as physical and occupational restorative skills. Additionally, the student will be able to demonstrate necessary skills and knowledge to perform an EKG while practicing standard precautions, infection control, quality assurance, and safety. The student will be able to recognize normal sinus rhythms and EKG rhythms consistent with a cardiac emergency.

Course #6: HED 0713 Advanced Allied Health Assistant

In continuation of the Allied Health Assistant course, students are adding didactic, laboratory, and clinical skills to be a more multiskilled worker. In this course, students add medical assistant skills and additional knowledge of geriatric populations to their knowledge base.

Course # 7: HED 0750 Patient Care Technician

This course is designed to provide the students with the opportunity to integrate their advanced skills with concepts that focus on organizational skills and employability skills specific to the Patient Care Technician. Students further explore the role of unlicensed assistive personnel in health care settings; give and receive end-of-shift reports, follow chain of command, use effective communication skills, understand the characteristics of team member relationships and learn ways to deal with conflict.

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Massage Therapy Academy – 525 Hours

The FSCJ Massage Therapy Program offers you a well-rounded training experience in massage therapy techniques. Our hands on training and expert curriculum will give you the tools you need to have a successful career in massage therapy. After the completion of our program you will be eligible to submit for review by the Florida Board of Massage Therapy to become a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT).

Part 1 - HED 0705 Anatomy & Physiology for Massage Therapy

This course introduces students to anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology. This course teaches student about the anatomy and physiology so that students can develop session strategies for their clients. Student will have a strong foundation of the development function and internal working of the human body systems that they can continue to use as reference points as they continue with their education.

Part 2 - HED 0706 Massage Therapy I

In this course, the student will be introduced to the history, development, and evolution of massage therapy and learn the basic principles of proper body mechanics and proper draping techniques. The student will learn how to conduct an intake interview with the client, basic documentation skills, as well as how to communicate effectively during the massage. The student will learn the basic principles and strokes of Swedish massage, and apply those techniques to sports massage, pregnancy massage, massage for special populations (medically frail, pediatric, geriatric clients) and contraindications for massage.

Part 3 - HED 0707 Massage Therapy II

In this course, the student will gain an understanding of pathology and hydrotherapy as it relates to the practice of massage therapy, and gain experience in the application of basic massage and advanced massage techniques in a clinical environment.

Part 4 - HED 0708 Massage Therapy III

In this course, the student will gain an understanding of alternative modalities as it relates to the practice of massage therapy and gain experience in the application of basic massage and advanced massage techniques in a clinical environment.

Part 5 - HED 0704 Business, Professional Ethics

In this course, the student will learn the intricacies of the therapeutic relationship, with a heavy focus on the roles and boundaries of therapist and client. This course is focused heavily on interactive discussion and activities designed to reinforce concepts of professional ethical behavior, including the framework and dynamics of client/therapist communication, handling ambiguous situations, sexual boundaries, financial boundaries, dual relationships, and taking advantage of peer support and supervision.

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