Health Technology Certificate

Complete program description
Program Description
This certificate will provide students with skills to secure an entry-level position in the health care field (nursing assistant, phlebotomist, home health aide) or allow students to engage in coursework that will transfer into the different health programs.

Industry Description
According to the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, people in entry-level health care careers are people who tend to:

• Consider relationships important 
• Like to work in a friendly, non-competitive environment;
• Like to do things for other people
• Prefer jobs where they are not pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong
• Consider good working conditions important
• Like jobs offering steady employment and good pay
• Want employment that fits their individual work style
• Prefer doing a variety of tasks, working alone, or being busy all the time
• Have social interests
• Like work activities that assist others and promote learning and personal development
• Like to communicate with others: to teach, give advice, help, or otherwise be of service to others. Have realistic interests
• Like work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions
• They like to work with plants, animals, and physical materials such as wood, tools, and machinery
• They often prefer to work outside.
  

Employers look for entry-level health care personnel who like to help people and do not mind hard work. Employees must be responsible, compassionate, emotionally stable, and cheerful. They also need to be tactful, honest, and discreet about patients' private lives.

Minnesota Law requires that any person who provides services that involve direct contact with patients and residents at a health care facility licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health have a background study conducted by the state. An individual who is disqualified from having direct patient contact as a result of the background study, and whose disqualification is not set aside by the Commissioner of Health, will not be permitted to participate in a clinical placement in a Minnesota licensed health care facility. The collegewill withdraw any student from the program who is disqualified by the Minnesota Department of Health. The student is responsible for requesting the Commissioner to reconsider the disqualification.

Start Dates
Fall Semester      August
Spring Semester  January

Program Contact
Teresa Dill
Phone   (763) 576-4842
E-mail   tdill@anokatech.edu

For information on how to apply or how to schedule a campus tour, contact the Admissions Office.
Phone   (763) 576-4700
E-mail   info@anokatech.edu