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Oct. 15—Staff report Ohio University Southern, in partnership with Scioto County Aspire, is introducing two new free training programs designed to enhance professional development in the fields ...
Individual states are allowed to use NREMT certification as part of their certification process, but are not required to. As of 2011, 38 states use the NREMT examination for EMT certification and 45 states use the NREMT examination for Paramedic certification. [3] These levels are denoted below using an asterisk (*).
An emergency medical technician (often, more simply, EMT) is a medical professional that provides emergency medical services. [1] [2] EMTs are most commonly found serving on ambulances and in fire departments in the US and Canada, as full-time and some part-time departments require their firefighters to at least be EMT certified.
In September 2005, CCHIT was awarded a 3-year contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and evaluate the certification criteria and inspection process for EHRs and the networks through which they interoperate. In October 2006, HHS officially designated CCHIT as a Recognized Certification Body (RCB). [1]
Basic Life Support Emergency Medical Services in the United States are generally identified with Emergency Medical Technicians-Basic (EMT-B). EMT-B is the highest level of healthcare provider that is limited to the BLS protocol; higher medical functions use some or all of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocols, in addition to BLS ...
Bluedrop ISM (formerly Bluedrop Performance Learning) is an e-learning company based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The company, founded in 1992 by President and CEO Emad Rizkalla, provides custom courseware and learning solutions [buzzword] for defence and aerospace, healthcare, small businesses and governments.
The Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA), formerly International Association of Health Central Service Material Management (IAHSCMM), [3] is a professional association which represents healthcare Central Service (CS) professionals, and is based in Chicago, Illinois with over 48,000 [4] members worldwide.
Since many certification boards have begun requiring periodic re-examination, critics in newspapers such as The New York Times have decried board certification exams as being "its own industry", costing doctors thousands of dollars each time and serving to enrich testing and prep companies rather than improving the quality of the profession. [14]