In case you missed it, this is a copy of an email recently sent to all BRPT members. Since this will affect your ability to claim CE credits, you will want to be aware that we will not be able to claim the respiratory related credits unless they are directly related to Sleep. There are many CEUs listed on this page that are useful now, but we may NOT be to claim them after September. Get them now! Don't miss out!
Attention credential holders:
The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) is long-known for offering a wide range of excellent educational opportunities for its members. We value these programs and believe the sleep-related content is as an integral part of a sleep technologist’s professional development.
The BRPT facilitates the approval of high quality continuing education opportunities to meet the professional needs of sleep technologists and other healthcare professionals working in clinical sleep health. All educational credits submitted for credential maintenance and/or recertification must be relevant to the scope of practice including the areas addressed by BRPT exam content and general sleep medicine education, as well as new technology and its application in the delivery of sleep medicine. This helps to ensure the RPSGT exam remains NCCA-accredited.
Beginning September 1, 2018, the BRPT will no longer accept CRCE credits submitted for credential maintenance or recertification unless they are directly sleep related. This policy applies to all live and online courses, as well as respiratory conferences. Any education credits earned on or after September 1, 2018 that do not follow these guidelines will no longer be accepted.
We appreciate your cooperation.
BRPT Staff
This post was on a Facebook page. Apparently this person contacted the BRPT directly & got this response. I have not personally contacted the BRPT.
Anybody have questions about the recent email from the BRPT? I asked if respiratory ceus concerning diseases would still be allowed (ie info about the asthma population we might see in our labs). This is the answer I got. Still not sure if these type of ceus would be accepted but I think not?
To clarify, the restrictions are not for CECs that are clearly sleep-related or linked to respiratory (but still directly sleep-related); it is for “blanket approvals” for conferences in which some, but not all of the content, is completely off-topic to sleep medicine. These programs often include seminars on topics such as: human resources, managing your career, leadership training, obtaining a higher degree, legislative/regulatory trends, etc.
Our policy is consistent with how AARC views other allied healthcare professions that may overlap with respiratory. For the purposes of maintaining your credential, the BRPT Board of Directors sets the recertification guidelines, based on our compliance with our NCCA accreditation standards. These require setting very strict parameters that the CECs must be sleep-related.
