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15th May 2017, 03:23 PM
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Re: The National Board for Respiratory Care NBRC

The National Board for Respiratory Care, Inc. (NBRC) is a deliberate wellbeing confirming board which was made in 1960 to assess the expert competence of respiratory advisors. A gathering of Chicago doctors and advisors perceived the need to formalize the preparation and enlistment of specialists required in the care and support of patients with respiratory issue.

The NBRC Executive Office has been situated in the metropolitan Kansas City zone since 1974 when the American Registry of Inhalation Therapists (ARIT) and Technician Certification Board of the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) converged to frame a solitary, autonomous credentialing association.

The NBRC makes progress toward greatness in giving credentialing examinations and related administrations to the respiratory group, and plans to stay at the front line of the testing field by offering substantial, dependable credentialing examinations, steady with driving estimation models and procedures. The NBRC stays energetic by taking an imaginative, liberal state of mind toward change and new open doors for development.

Testing Agency

PSI-AMP-Logo_Web.pngNBRC's trying office is PSI Services LLC (PSI), a private partnership headquartered in Burbank, California. As of now, PSI is giving trying administrations to more than 100 customers and roughly 200,000 applicants are tried every year. PSI's concentration is giving a full scope of social insurance accreditation administrations, including test advancement and conveyance, in a customer centered way.

Accreditation


Establishment for Credentialing Excellence Logo The NBRC is an individual from the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), and the accompanying examination projects are licensed by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA): CRT, RRT, CPFT, RPFT, Adult Critical Care Specialty Examination, Neonatal/Pediatric Specialty Examination, and the Sleep Disorders Specialty Examination. Accreditation by the NCCA means genuine consistence with stringent testing and estimation norms among national wellbeing testing associations. This acknowledgment bears witness to the NBRC's past and proceeded with endeavors to keep up the quality and trustworthiness of examination projects in the interest of the respiratory care calling.

Certification levels

Entry level affirmation


Accreditation is the section level and is isolated in that capacity by the NBRC. Ensured Respiratory Therapists and Certified Pulmonary Function Technologists may require oversight and supervision by their propelled hone partners.

Advanced practice certification

The term the NBRC uses to assign a propelled professional is "enrolled" and the expansion to a propelled expert registry which is not perpetual but rather has a re-confirmation charge related with it. Enlisted Respiratory Therapist and Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist are as of now the progressed credentialings kept up by the NBRC.

Specialties


The NBRC has sub-claims to fame for the Respiratory Therapist assignments. Both the CRT and the RRT are qualified to sit for extra credentialing however the CRT still requires a similar supervision by the RRT in clinical applications.

Examinations

ACCS Logo Adult Critical Care Specialty Examination (RRT-ACCS)

CPFT Logo Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist (CPFT)

CRT Logo Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)

NPS Logo Neonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care Specialist (CRT-NPS or RRT-NPS)

RPFT Logo Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist (RPFT)

RRT Logo Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)

SDS Logo Sleep Disorders Testing and Therapeutic Intervention Respiratory Care Specialist (CRT-SDS or RRT-SDS)

Contact:


NBRC Executive Office
10801 Mastin Street, Suite 300
Overland Park, KS 66210

Email: nbrc-info@nbrc.org

Toll-Free: 888.341.4811
Phone: 913.895.4900
Fax: 913.712.9283


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