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NPS — The Neonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care Specialty Examination is designed specifically for a respiratory therapist with an NBRC respiratory care credential and experience in the field of neonatal/pediatric care. Those who are actively certified as a Neonatal/Pediatric Specialist are permitted to use the post-nominal letters "NPS", "RRT ...
California College San Diego [1] Carrington College California - Pleasant Hill; Concorde Career College-Garden Grove; Concorde Career College-North Hollywood; Concorde Career College-San Bernardino; Crafton Hills College - Yucaipa; East Los Angeles College - Monterey Park; El Camino College - Torrance; Foothill College - Los Altos Hills; Fresno ...
An EMS provider's post-nominal (listed after the name) credentials usually follow his or her name in this order: . Highest earned academic degree in or related to medicine, (e.g. "MD")
The Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT) is the certification given after successfully passing the Therapist Multiple Choice NBRC-TMC exam; the Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) certification is given after first making the RRT cut-off score on the TMC exam, and passing the Clinical Simulation Exam NBRC-CSE.
Nursing credentials and certifications are the various credentials and certifications that a person must have to practice nursing legally. Nurses' postnominal letters (abbreviations listed after the name) reflect their credentials—that is, their achievements in nursing education, licensure, certification, and fellowship.
Obtaining a certificate is voluntary in some fields, but in others, certification from a government-accredited agency may be legally required to perform certain jobs or tasks. Organizations in the United States involved in setting standards for certification include the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Institute for ...
From the 1980s through the 2000s, 49 states passed legislation relying on results from the certification examination as a central component in the regulation of respiratory therapists. Changes in education requirements for the CRT vs the RRT have resulted in the CRT level practitioners having the same responsibilities and practice abilities, in ...
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.