Special Education

An online education college degree is the non-traditional, but no less effective way to get all the 21st century benefits of a higher education.

What We’ve Been Told

From early on, we’ve all been drummed into heads by our parents who tell us how important it is to have a college degree. For the 99% of us (minus the 1% who are the Bill Gates and Michael Dell’s of the world) having a college degree is an advantage for our careers.

However, going the traditional route may not work out for many people for various reasons. Luckily there are options and that’s where an online education college degree comes in.
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Currently, our profession is one of the most under recognized and underpaid of the clinical technicians in the modern health care setting. This is a very sad state of affairs when one considers the importance of the role of the sterile processing technician in the hospital and surgery center setting. Quite literally, no direct patient care providing medical center can function without them!

It is unlikely that hospital administrators will come to an epiphany on their own with respect to the profession within their respective facilities and seek to reach down and help elevate the SPD department and, subsequently, its technicians. It is, in pretty much any endeavor, futile (not to mention lazy and irresponsible) to sit around any hope for things to get better. Some times, we have take the initiative upon ourselves.

In central services, one organization, IAHCSMM, has been at the forefront of this for many, many years. And other independent and group efforts are underway, organizations such as The Central Sterile Processing Initiative. But a more concentrated effort is now needed if we are to move the profession forward.

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Future developments for higher education in the UK are focused on increased accessibility for more students, as well as putting the necessary means in place to ensure that institutions can deliver better quality education in the face of impending budget cuts. But could these plans simply ensure a greater number of people enter the workplace armed with grades, instead of the necessary knowledge and skills which employers really desire?

The question comes after a high profile open letter written to the funding council for universities from Labour MP, and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Peter Mandelson.

In it, he asked that the council develop more flexible degrees – some lasting for two years – in a move ‘away from full-time three year places’ which have come to typify the idea of a degree course.
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