Programs Available at Omega Institute:

Day /Evening Program Cardiovascular technologists and technicians assist physicians in diagnosing and treating cardiac (heart) and peripheral vascular (blood vessel) ailments. Cardiovascular technologists and technicians schedule appointments, review physicians’ interpretations and patient files, and monitor patients’ heart rates. They also operate and care for testing equipment, explain test procedures, and compare findings to a standard to identify problems. Other day-to-day activities vary significantly between specialties. Cardiographic technicians. Technicians who specialize in electrocardiography, or EKG, stress testing, and perform Holter monitor procedures are known as cardiographic or electrocardiograph (or EKG) technicians. Cardiovascular technologists and technicians held about 49,500 jobs in 2008. About 77 percent of jobs were in hospitals (public and private), primarily in cardiology departments. The remaining jobs were mostly in offices of physicians, including cardiologists, or in medical and diagnostic laboratories, including diagnostic imaging centers. Employment is expected to grow much faster than the average; technologists and technicians with multiple professional credentials, trained to perform a wide range of procedures, will have the best prospects.

Clinical Medical Assisting is an exciting and expanding field with expected job growth through the year 2014. Medical Assistants work in doctors’ offices and medical facilities and perform a wide variety of tasks, including both administrative and clinical hands-on duties. A Medical Assistant’s caring nature can greatly impact patients’ doctors’ visits by helping put them at ease and explaining information to them.

Omega’s Clinical Medical Assistant training program offers the ideal combination of required skills. You will learn business skills, such as communications and professionalism, along with specific job skills, such as office procedures, drawing blood, conducting EKGs, and taking vital signs. By adding your motivation and energy, along with your desire to help others, your career as a Clinical Medical Assistant can be extremely rewarding.

Pharmacy Technicians assist Pharmacists in storing, dispensing, and monitoring medications and other health-related products to help keep patients well. They prepare prescribed medications, as well as provide customer service.

Pharmacy Technicians work in a variety of settings, such as retail pharmacies, grocery stores, department stores, and hospitals. This field is expected to grow faster than average through 2014, and the need for Pharmacy Technicians will increase. If you are a detail-oriented person who likes working in a fast-paced environment, along with enjoying working with others, you may have a great future as a Pharmacy Technician.

Surgical Technologists, also known as surgical technicians, operating room technicians, or technicians in surgery help during surgical procedures under the direction of surgeons, registered nurses, and other surgical workers. They are prepared for working in the perioperative settings such as the endoscopy department, sterilization and decontamination departments, and operating room. Prior to the surgery, technologists prep the surgical suite by placing surgical tools and equipment and surgical dressings and liquids in their appropriate place. They ensure that all equipment is functioning properly, and prepare the patient for the operation by disinfecting the part of the body where the incision is to be made. They move the patient to the room, properly position them on the table, and use sterile “drapes” to cover them.

Surgical Technicians are responsible for maintaining a sterile surgical environment. During the operation, technologists hand surgical instruments and supplies to the doctors and surgical assistants as needed. They also count equipment, such as needles, sponges, and other instruments to ensure that nothing is left inside the patient. They may also be required to handle lights, suction equipment, and sterilizers. They also assist with specimens to be taken to the laboratory by collecting and caring for them. Following the surgery, technologists restock the surgical suite with supplies and may transport the patient to the recovery room.