Dedicated to Your Healthcare Career Success

We are proud to offer high-quality healthcare training programs that align with the current needs in our community. Enjoy small class sizes and a team of expert instructors who will help you gain the skills and knowledge to make a difference in the healthcare industry. With new courses starting monthly, there’s no need to wait to start pursuing your dream career.

 

Resources & Expertise to Meet Your Goals

In the fast-paced, around-the-clock world of healthcare, time is valuable. Professional & Workforce Training has the resources to design and deliver education and training so you have more time to spend doing what you love–focusing on patients. Let us help you increase patient satisfaction and outcomes along with raising employee engagement, productivity and retention.

You’ll see the benefits to working with Anoka Technical College and Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Professional & Workforce Training provides:

  • Certificate programs
  • Continuing education units
  • Healthcare training equipment, labs, and simulation
  • Lecture, hands-on and online delivery

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CURRENT OPEN ENROLLMENT COURSES:

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certifications
Prepare for a career in the fast-paced field of Healthcare Sterile Processing. Central Service Technicians work in hospitals and surgery centers to clean, decontaminate, disinfect, sterilize, and distribute medical and surgical instruments and equipment.

>> View the Central Service Technician | Sterile Processing Course

Participants will receive continuing education hours for attending the course. The information will assist those interested in pursuing the Certified Endoscope Reprocessor (CER) credential through the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA).

>> View the Endoscope Reprocessing Course

Emergency Medical Responders manage patient care at the scene of trauma or medical emergencies until advanced medical personnel arrive. In this hybrid course, students will complete online content modules and attend classroom skill sessions with a certified instructor until knowledge and skill competencies are met.

>> View the Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) Course

The Healthcare Core Curriculum (HCCC) Educate the Educator Course is an online 7-module course designed for those interested in teaching the HCCC. The HCCC is a model curriculum that allows students to explore healthcare careers and offers educational pathways in allied health and nursing assistant programs.

>> View the Healthcare Core Curriculum (HCCC) Educate the Educator Course

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an international evidence-based course that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. This course gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.

>> View the Mental Health First Aid Course

Nursing Assistant

In a short time, gain new skills for a healthcare career and make a difference! Upon meeting course training requirements, you are eligible to receive a certificate of completion, and after passing the Nursing Assistant (NA) Competency Evaluation (State Test), you will be placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.

>> View the Nursing Assistant Course

Successful completion of the Knowledge and Skills Evaluations places candidates on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.

>> View the Nursing Assistant Exam

Become part of the surgical team as an operating room nurse! This comprehensive course has been designed to provide Registered Nurses a thorough introduction to perioperative nursing.

>> View the Perioperative Nursing Course

This course provides students with 40 hours of classroom instruction and 100 hours of clinical practice in phlebotomy techniques. Topics include equipment and procedures for blood collection by venipuncture and capillary punctures.

>> View Part One: Phlebotomy Technician Course

>> View Part Two: Phlebotomy – Clinical Experience Course

This Refresher Program is approved by the Minnesota Board of Nursing and has been designed to provide continuing education in nursing theory and clinical skills to Practical Nurses and Registered Nurses after a lapse in licensure or period of time out of practice.

>> View the RN and LPN Refresher Course Course

Acquire the skills to safely administer medications under the direction of a nurse. Discover how medications affect the physiology of the body systems. Participants will learn and demonstrate how to give medications through oral, rectal, and topical routes. The legal requirements concerning medication administration and documentation will be discussed.

>> View the Trained Medication Aide (TMA) Course

CUSTOMIZED TRAINING:

 On site - Online - At Our Campus - At Your Place of Business
We partner with a number of organizations to bring training from our campuses out to you. Contact us to learn more about on-site classes and curriculum that can be customized to fit your unique continuing education needs.
Emergency Medical Services

Successful frontline nurse leaders play a vital role in today’s highly complex ever changing health care world. For this success, nurse leaders necessitate leadership and management skills to positively impact unit operations and patient outcomes. This course is an evidenced based educational program that offers essential leadership and management skills to prepare frontline nurse leaders to be effective in their role.

>> View the Essentials for Emerging Frontline Leaders: A Charge Nurse Course

This course is an evidenced based educational program that offers essential leadership and management skills to prepare nurse leaders for achieving impactful results in planned change and project management outcomes.

>> View the Essentials to Project Management: A Nurse Leadership Course

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an international evidence-based course that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. This course gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.

Contact Laura Cleveland for customized training scheduling and pricing.

In a short time, gain new skills for a healthcare career and make a difference! Upon meeting course training requirements, you are eligible to receive a certificate of completion, and after passing the Nursing Assistant (NA) Competency Evaluation (State Test), you will be placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.

>> View the Nursing Assistant Course

This course provides students with 40 hours of classroom instruction and 100 hours of clinical practice in phlebotomy techniques. Topics include equipment and procedures for blood collection by venipuncture and capillary punctures.

>> View the Phlebotomy Technician Course

>> View the Phlebotomy – No Clinical Experience Course

>> Endoscope Reprocessing

>> Perioperative Nursing

Scrub Skills for Registered Nurses

>> Sterile Processing

Sterile Technique

Acquire the skills to safely administer medications under the direction of a nurse. Discover how medications affect the physiology of the body systems. Participants will learn and demonstrate how to give medications through oral, rectal, and topical routes. The legal requirements concerning medication administration and documentation will be discussed.

>> View the Trained Medication Aide (TMA) Course

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Professional & Workforce Training provides fast, efficient, in-depth, and highly interactive training through classroom instruction and hands-on experience.

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Anoka Technical College – Professional Training
Suite 191
1355 West Hwy 10
Anoka, MN 55303
Hours: 7:30 am to 4:00 pm

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