NBRC to Conduct Job Analysis for the CRT and RRT Examinations
September 11, 2007
The National Board for Respiratory Care, Inc. (NBRC) is announcing the commencement of Job Analyses for the Certification Examination for Entry Level Respiratory Therapists (CRT) and the Registry Examination for Advanced Respiratory Therapists (RRT).
The NBRC updates examination content for CRT and RRT credentials by conducting these studies every five years. Surveys were mailed to a random sampling of respiratory therapists during the week of August 20, 2007. If you are in receipt of a survey, you are eligible for enrollment in a drawing for a trip to the AARC International Congress in Orlando, FL including airfare, hotel and conference registration. Recipients should refer to the survey cover for details.
Contemporary standards for tests indicate the NBRC must show that candidates’ examination scores relate to their job performance. The NBRC has conducted significant research over the past 25 years documenting content and criterion-related evidence in support of the validity of test results.
If you have received a survey in the mail, your participation is vital to ensuring that content of NBRC examinations remains current! If your responses are received by the deadline described in the survey, you will be entered in the drawing for a trip to the AARC International Congress in Orlando, FL!
More information about the details of the studies will be released as plans are finalized.
The National Board for Respiratory Care, Inc. (NBRC) is a not-for-profit, voluntary health certifying board which was created in 1960 to evaluate the professional competence of respiratory therapists. The NBRC provides high quality credentialing examinations for practitioners of respiratory therapy and pulmonary function technology and supports activities that advance medicine by promoting use of respiratory care in treating human ailments. Since its inception, the NBRC has issued over 304,000 professional credentials to more than 186,000 individuals, and currently tests nearly 25,000 candidates annually. Additional information is available at www.nbrc.org.