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.
CURRENT OPEN ENROLLMENT COURSES:
Earn American Heart Association certifications for Basic Life Support (BLS).
>>American Heart Association BLS Provider
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
Starting in 2022, Anoka Technical College will be enrolling paramedics into a 6-8 month program to earn Community Paramedic (CP) certification. Working under the direction of an ambulance medical director, a community paramedic serves an important role in preventing hospital readmission and the use of emergency departments.
The DOT EMS Instructor Course is reflective of the DOT/NHTSA 2002 National Guidelines for Education of EMS instructors. The DOT Instructor is intended for all parties who are primary instructors of an EMT or higher EMS course. This course covers planning, coordinating, and instructing an EMT or higher course.
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.
Endoscope reprocessing workshop providing information that enhances the knowledge for those responsible for processing endoscopes. It is an additional tool to understand the background, overview, work area practice, cleaning and sterilization practices for best infection prevention. Participants will receive continuing education hours for attending the 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
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
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
Healthcare providers looking to attain skills in intravenous therapy will value this focused class. Learn and practice how to safely set up and maintain intravenous (IV) therapy.
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.
This course is designed to provide Practical Nurses and Registered Nurses a review of nursing theory and clinical skills to enhance their practice of nursing after a lapse in licensure or an extended period of time out of practice.
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/Home Health Aide (NA/HHA) Competency Evaluation (State Test), you will be placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.
Successful completion of the Knowledge and Skills Evaluations places candidates on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.
The PALS Provider Course aims to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary arrest by using high‐performance team dynamics and high‐quality individual skills.
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.
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.
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.
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING:
On site – Online – At Our Campus – At Your Place of Business
* These programs can be customized and delivered at your business site. Contact Laura Cleveland for pricing.
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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/Home Health Aide (NA/HHA) Competency Evaluation (State Test), you will be placed on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry.
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.
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>> View the Perioperative Nursing Course
Fundamentals of Perioperative Nursing
Sterile Technique
Sterile Processing
Scrub Skills for Registered Nurses
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.
Tyrell Harlin – Next Generation Nursing Assistant Graduate
“I am so thankful for this opportunity! Never once in my life have I been called a “hero” and felt it. I have a CAREER NOW, I’m a certified Life saver! I know FORE SURE now this what I was brought on this earth to do.”
BLS Provider Student
"One of the best, if not the best, CPR training I've attended in 20 yrs as a nurse!"
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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On-site Training
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.