Healthcare Training & Certification: Empowering Tomorrow’s Heroes

Healthcare heroes exist all around us. These exceptional human beings often exude common “hero traits” such as intelligence, strength, selflessness, resilience, and reliability.¹ Healthcare organizations can empower tomorrow’s heroes to act with skill and confidence by providing them with access to training programs, especially when this training also prepares learners to sit for certification exams.

Study Finds Even Newly Certified Health Workers Need More Skills

When you hire newly certified allied healthcare workers, you might assume they have the skills needed to perform their job duties. While many do, a study commissioned by the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) found that, according to 65% of employers, these workers still need to further develop certain skills, including:³

Training programs can provide workers with the skills needed for their specific roles, along with the skills and qualities that are important when working in healthcare in general.

Training Benefits Healthcare Employers, Too

Healthcare employers also benefit from offering staff access to allied health training programs. Consider the following information learned from a 2023 Study on Allied Health Workforce Retention: ⁴

This data suggests that offering allied health staff training can help improve employee retention and reduce turnover rates. This is critical at a time when there are estimated to be over 8,000 allied health job vacancies in Florida hospitals alone, contributing to an overall average vacancy rate of 11% and an average turnover rate of 15.8% for these healthcare roles.⁵

Training Programs at Nasium Training: What Are Your Options?

Healthcare training programs help workers develop the clinical and administrative skills needed to perform their jobs with greater efficiency and ease. Learners gain foundational knowledge in healthcare topics like human anatomy and medical terminology, also learning the necessary hard and soft skills for their allied healthcare roles.

Allied health training program options (and the topics they cover) include:

Medical Assistant Training Program

• Human anatomy and disease processes
• Medical assisting foundations
• Clinical skills for medical assistants
• Office administrative skills
• Clinical experience

Limited Scope Radiography Training Program

• Radiographic anatomy
• X-ray science
• Image production
• Equipment operation
• Ancillary clinical skills

Pharmacy Technician Training Program

• Pharmacology
• Federal regulations, laws, and ethics
• Medication quality assurance
• Prescription processing and dispensing

Licensed Health Agent Training Program

• Clarifying insurance coverage
• Helping file benefit claims
• Offering recommendations during open enrollment

Importance of Certification for Healthcare Professionals

In addition to receiving job skills training, it also benefits allied health professionals to pursue industry certification. The NHA’s 2024 Industry Outlook report reveals:⁶

Choose Healthcare Training with Certification Prep

Healthcare organizations can help allied health workers prepare for their certification exams by offering them training that includes test preparation. Certification preparation helps ensure that learners have the proficiency required in topics covered on the test, along with exposing them to a similar testing environment so they know better what to expect.

Nasium Training offers the following certification prep in its training courses:

• Medical Assistant — Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) certification prep*
• Limited Scope Radiograpy — ARRT Basic X-Ray Exam prep
• Pharmacy Technician — ExCPT and PTCB certification exam prep
• Licensed Health Agent — Health Agent License prep

*Nasium Training also offers a standalone 2-week certification prep training course designed to prepare learners for the CCMA exam. Training availability and certification eligibility requirements vary by state.

How Can Nasium Training Help You?

Nasium Training offers a variety of allied health career training programs designed to help your staff develop the skills needed to excel in their roles, preparing them to become future healthcare heroes and leaders in the field. Each program includes learner and technical support, providing guidance to your staff should questions arise.

Contact us today to learn more about your training options for both online learning and live virtual clinical instruction. We look forward to learning more about how we can help your staff succeed in their allied healthcare roles!

¹ Goethals. Great Eight Traits of Heroes. Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_259-1

² Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions. What is Allied Health? https://www.asahp.org/what-is

³ Ressler. Allied Health Trends Impacting Hiring and Retention in Private Practice. National Healthcareer Association. https://info.nhanow.com/learning-leading-blog/allied-health-trends-impacting-hiring-and-retention-in-private-practice

⁴ Based on 1,000 participants surveyed in the Study on Allied Health Workforce Retention commissioned by UMA Education, Inc. and ACUPOLL ® Precision Research, Inc., February 3-22, 2023.

⁵ Florida Hospital Association. Press Release – New Data Reveals Significant Improvements to Florida’s Health Care Workforce Shortage. https://www.fha.org/FHA/FHA/News-Content/New-Releases/091224%20Vacancy%20and%20Turnover%20Data%20Release.aspx

⁶ National Healthcareer Association. 2024 Industry Outlook. https://info.nhanow.com/outlook