Continuing Education

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As of July 1, 2006, licensees will no longer be required by Chapter 456, F.S., to take an HIV/AIDS course for each renewal. However, registered respiratory therapists and certified respiratory therapists are required to take an approved 3 hour HIV/AIDS for their first renewal only.

Medical Errors – Two continuing education hours is required for both initial licensure and renewal of license in the area of medical error prevention to include:

• missed treatments
  
• documentation errors
  
• equipment errors
  
• patient errors
  
• communication errors

• 50 clock minutes = one (1) contact hour
  
• 25 clock minutes = one-half (1/2 or .5) contact hour
  
• Applicants licensed in the second half of the biennium are exempt from the CE requirement for their first renewal
  
• Two (2) hours of prevention of medical errors education
  
• Up to 12 hours of home/internet/self study per biennium
  
• Minimum of 16 hours each biennium must be obtained by each licensee in approved offerings related to the direct delivery of respiratory care services.
  
• Up to 8 hours of attendance at scheduled public meetings of the Board of Respiratory Care
  
• Up to 8 hours of appropriate continuing education in the following areas:
  • Management
    
  • Risk management
    
  • Personal growth
    
  • Educational techniques

• The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) as Category I or III
  
• The Florida Society for Respiratory Care
  
• The Accreditation Council for continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American and Florida Thoracic Societies, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American and Florida Societies of Anesthesiologists, American and Florida Lung Association, the National Society for Cardiopulmonary Technologists, the American Heart Association, the American Nurses Association and the Florida Nurses Association, provided that they are related to respiratory care services;
  
• Attendance at all offerings that are conducted by institutions approved by the Joint Review Committee for Respiratory Therapy Education (JRCTE);
  
• Successful completion, for the first time, of any college or university course, but only if such course is part of the curriculum within an AMA accredited respiratory therapy program and is provided by that AMA accredited respiratory therapy program, up to the maximum hours permitted by subsection (3) of this rule.

1. Advanced cardiac life support;
   
2. Neonatal resuscitation program;
   
3. Pediatric advanced life support.

Successful completion of the following recertification classes, up to a maximum of 8 hours per biennium;

1. Advanced cardiac life support;
   
2. Neonatal resuscitation program;
   
3. Pediatric advanced life support.

Successful passage, one time per biennium, of the following recredentialing examinations given by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC):

1. Clinical Simulation Recertification Examination – maximum of 4 hours;
   
2. Registry Recredentialing Examination (written portion) – maximum of 2 hours;
   
3. Certified Respiratory Therapist Recredentialing Examination – maximum of 3 hours;
   
4. Perinatal Pediatrics Recredentialing Examination – maximum of 3 hours.