Concorde Career Institute
10933 Marks Way
Miramar, FL 33025
The following programs are available:
As a patient care technician, you will work closely with doctors and other medical professionals in monitoring the condition of your patients. You will use your technical knowledge to provide direct patient care including phlebotomy (blood work) and EKGs. Your responsibilities will include monitoring patients for changes in condition and recording and reporting those changes, setting up and operating therapeutic equipment, instructing and supervising patients about rehabilitative therapy, helping to carry out planned patient care programs, and assisting medical staff in changing dressings and conducting patient examinations.
At Concorde you will receive "multi-tasked" training, which means you will be trained in both clinical and administrative capabilities.
Clinical responsibilities include sterilizing and preparing instrument trays, exposing and processing X-rays, conducting oral
inspections, preparing patients for treatment and taking vital signs. Administrative responsibilities include patient charting,
appointment setting, completing insurance forms, accounts payable and fee collections.
In your position as an Insurance Coding & Billing Specialist, you play an integral role in your employer's office. You help make it
possible for your employer to collect monetary reimbursements from patient insurance providers.
You will assess patient records and classify levels of claims for reimbursement using detailed healthcare coding systems. Your work is
essential to the success of your employer's medical business.
As a medical assistant, you will be an integral part of the healthcare delivery team. In this position, you are considered a
"multi-tasked" provider. This means you will be trained and qualified in both clinical and administrative capabilities.
Medical assistants work closely with doctors in clinics and physicians' offices. You will be entrusted with a variety of critical
responsibilities.
Administrative skills and responsibilities include scheduling and receiving patients, preparing and maintaining medical records,
performing basic secretarial skills and medical transcription, handling telephone calls and written correspondence, serving as a
liaison between physicians and other individuals and managing practice finances.
Clinical responsibilities include taking patient histories and vital signs, performing first aid and CPR, preparing patients for
procedures, assisting the physician with examinations and treatments, infection control, collecting and processing specimens,
performing selected diagnostic tests and preparing and administering medications as directed by the physician.
As a pharmacy technician, you will fill prescriptions in a variety of medical environments including hospitals, medical clinics and
retail and institutional pharmacies. Your work involves performing pharmaceutical stock keeping, delivery, technical assistance
and clerical duties.
Examples of duties you will perform are: assisting pharmacists in filling prescriptions, assisting pharmacists in preparing drugs for
unit-dose delivery, reconstituting sterile medications, preparing intravenous (IV) mixtures for patient administration, preparing IV
chemotherapy drugs, entering prescriptions into a computer to obtain labels, ensuring information, such as drug generic name, expiration
date, and lot number are properly recorded on labels and log records for repackaged drugs, reviewing stock orders and replenishing
supplies and conducting physical inventories.
As a graduate of the program, you will be prepared to sit for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) certification exam.
As a surgical technologist, you perform essential tasks before, during and after operations. You work closely with surgeons,
anesthesiologists, registered nurses and other key surgical personnel in hospital operating rooms and outpatient surgery centers.
Surgical technologists play a critical role in patient care.
Graduates will be eligible to sit for the national examination leading to the Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) credential as
sponsored by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) formerly known as the Liaison Council on
Certification for the Surgical Technologist (LCC-ST).
This program leads to an Associate in Science degree and prepares students to take the National Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX.RN).
Graduates, who pass the NCLEX.RN, can enter the healthcare workforce as a confident, competent, professional entry level registered nurse. The RN is
highly skilled and educated and is prepared to function in the roles of provider of care, manager of care, and contributing member of a healthcare
team. While at the bedside, the RN is accountable for decisions that impact the healthcare outcomes for the patient. The scope of the RN's practice
is defined in individual state statutes.
Students in this program are enrolled in general education courses, nursing theory courses, and clinical practice. The nursing courses begin with
Foundations courses that introduce students to the practice of nursing, nursing theories, legal and ethical issues in nursing, and basic concepts of
patient care. Students then advance through nursing courses that include more complex concepts in patient care and specialty nursing areas such as mental
health, maternal-child nursing and care of pediatric patients.
Applicants who meet all other admission criteria and possess a current, unencumbered license to practice in the State of Florida as LPN's may be given academic credit for selected nursing courses.
As a respiratory therapist, you will assist physicians in the diagnosis and management of heart/lung deficiencies and abnormalities, as well as
utilize sophisticated equipment to measure lung function and monitor heart functions. You might treat newborns, trauma victims, drowning victims,
and patients suffering from asthma, bronchitis, coronary heart disease, emphysema and pneumonia.
In addition to the realistic laboratory environment Concorde provides, we also offer a hands-on working experience in various hospital settings through clinical rotations.
Graduates of this program will be eligible to sit for the Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT) examination administered by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC).
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