Patient Care Technician
Instructor: Debbie Knowles, R.N.
Program Number H170694
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides
coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and
relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education
and careers in the Health Science career cluster; provides technical skill
proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to
the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work
attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and
occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Health Science
career cluster.
This program is designed to prepare
students for employment as advanced cross trained nursing assistants (patient
care technicians), SOC Code 29-2099.00
(Health Technologists and Technicians), Health Care Technicians, Patient
Care Assistants, Nursing Aides and Orderlies (66008439), Home Health Aides
(66011456), or Allied Health Assistants.
This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills, expanding
the traditional role of the nursing assistant, for both acute and long term care
settings.
The program focuses on broad, transferable skills and
stresses understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the health
care industry; planning, management, finance, technical and production skills,
underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues and health,
safety, and environmental issues.
This program is a planned sequence of instruction
consisting of six occupational completion points.
The Health Science Core is required for all health programs and options.
Secondary or postsecondary students who have previously completed the
Health Science Core will not have to repeat the core.
A student who completes the applicable competencies at any occupational
completion point may either continue with the training program or exit as an
occupational completer.
Specific course information regarding licensure and
certification guidelines is included with the student performance standards
portion of the framework. The
recommended length for the core is 90 clock hours.
This program may be offered in PSAV courses.
Vocational credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in
accordance with Section 1001.44, F.S.
The related modules available in this program are:
Health Science Core
Articulated Nursing Assistant
Advanced Home Health Aide
Patient Care Assistant
Allied Health Assistant
Advanced Allied Health Assistant
Patient Care Technician
To complete at Patient Care Assistant, the module Core,
Nursing Assistant (Articulated)and Home Health Aide plus the Patient Care
Assistant module must be completed.
To complete at Patient Care Technician the module Core, Articulated Nursing Assistant, Advanced Home Health Aide, Patient Care Assistant, Allied Health Assistant, Advanced Allied Health Assistant and the last module of Patient Care Technician must be completed. The standard length of the entire program is 600 hours and is currently offered at night from 4:30pm to 9:00pm Monday through Thursday.
According to TTI's most current annual report (2009-2010 data) the students in this program had a 88% completion rate, and 47% total placement rate, and a licensure pass rate of 60%. For information relating to costs of fees and equipment please click here.
