Advanced Patient Care Technician Program is an innovative program specifically designed for students who seek employment as an entry level or students employed but wants to acquire more certificates in health care settings. Students who enroll in our program stands the opportunity becoming nursing assistant, phlebotomist and Electrocardiograph technician within two months (12 weeks). Students will learn how to become skilled health care providers that performs meaningful and helpful tasks, and thereby helping to decrease the strain on other health care professionals.
Graduates of this program will be able to:
- Performs basic nursing care at the resident bedside in long term care facilities, hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centers.
- Develop the essential skills required to manage nerve-racking circumstances an sustain patient confidentiality as well as the commitment to obtaining the very best quality blood sample for laboratory evaluation.
- Operate machines that record the electrical activity of a patient’s heart, which physicians use to determine possible abnormalities in a heartbeat in health care settings.
Type of Certification
Upon the completion of the all modules, graduates will receive a certificate of completion from Pioneer School of Health as an Advanced Patient Care Technician. Module 1, graduates are required to be certified by taking the Nurse Aide Competency Evaluation Test. The Examination consists of a written test and a skill demonstration test. Employment in the Nursing Aide field requires both the school diploma and the state certification. Fees for the state certification are the responsibility of the student and must be paid before the school schedules the student for testing. Upon the completion of Module 2/3 graduates have choice of if individual wants to be certified.
