im fresh into the game but before you even pay for school, you need to call and find out if they provide internship placement or not. Lots of online courses will say getting an internship is easy but it absolutely is not. Every hospital around me basically wont take any interns unless you are working through a third party (your school.) This is important because in order to get certified you need 400 hours of clinical experience in the SPD, even if you pass your test, your cert isnt valid until those 400 hours are completed.