Tom Preston BS, CCT, CCPThe Heart Center

Nationwide Children’s HospitalColumbus, OH

Tom Preston BS, CCT, CCPThe Heart Center

Nationwide Children’s HospitalColumbus, OH

PRO/CON

CCP’s Should ^be required to sit for exams every 10 years to recertify (like MD’s)

PRO/CON

CCP’s Should ^be required to sit for exams every 10 years to recertify (like MD’s)

NOT

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CertificationCertification

• Certification (Credentialing):– Measures, in a standardized and unbiased manner, the ability of the

candidate to apply the knowledge and skills in the role of a professional.

– Passing a certification establishes that the individual is minimally competent to work unsupervised in a given field or profession.

– Certification does not mean that an individual knows everything required to be considered an expert in a given field.

• Continuing Education:– Keeps the professional current by updating their knowledge base and

teaching them new skills.– Frequently is associated with the development of a specialty.– May also be based on a specific modality or tool.– Assumes that the individual participating possesses all of the

foundational knowledge required of the minimally competent professional.

– Generally does not meet the threshold for credible certification for exam content, structure and administration.

National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)

• Certification (Credentialing):– Measures, in a standardized and unbiased manner, the ability of the

candidate to apply the knowledge and skills in the role of a professional.

– Passing a certification establishes that the individual is minimally competent to work unsupervised in a given field or profession.

– Certification does not mean that an individual knows everything required to be considered an expert in a given field.

• Continuing Education:– Keeps the professional current by updating their knowledge base and

teaching them new skills.– Frequently is associated with the development of a specialty.– May also be based on a specific modality or tool.– Assumes that the individual participating possesses all of the

foundational knowledge required of the minimally competent professional.

– Generally does not meet the threshold for credible certification for exam content, structure and administration.

National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)

CertificationCertification

• Certification (Credentialing):– Measures, in a standardized and unbiased manner, the ability of the

candidate to apply the knowledge and skills in the role of a professional.

– Passing a certification establishes that the individual is minimally competent to work unsupervised in a given field or profession.

– Certification does not mean that an individual knows everything required to be considered an expert in a given field.

• Continuing Education:– Keeps the professional current by updating their knowledge base and

teaching them new skills.– Frequently is associated with the development of a specialty.– May also be based on a specific modality or tool.– Assumes that the individual participating possesses all of the

foundational knowledge required of the minimally competent professional.

– Generally does not meet the threshold for credible certification for exam content, structure and administration.

National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)

• Certification (Credentialing):– Measures, in a standardized and unbiased manner, the ability of the

candidate to apply the knowledge and skills in the role of a professional.

– Passing a certification establishes that the individual is minimally competent to work unsupervised in a given field or profession.

– Certification does not mean that an individual knows everything required to be considered an expert in a given field.

• Continuing Education:– Keeps the professional current by updating their knowledge base and

teaching them new skills.– Frequently is associated with the development of a specialty.– May also be based on a specific modality or tool.– Assumes that the individual participating possesses all of the

foundational knowledge required of the minimally competent professional.

– Generally does not meet the threshold for credible certification for exam content, structure and administration.

National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)

Why do we certify who we certify?

Why do we certify who we certify?

• New graduates– Need to assess the BASE knowledge

deemed necessary to enter profession– Case load minimum– Two part exam

• Pass rate for 1st time applicants of the:– Perfusion Basic Science Exam

» ABCP– Clinical Applications in Perfusion Exam

» ABCP

• New graduates– Need to assess the BASE knowledge

deemed necessary to enter profession– Case load minimum– Two part exam

• Pass rate for 1st time applicants of the:– Perfusion Basic Science Exam

» ABCP– Clinical Applications in Perfusion Exam

» ABCP

Why do we pursue CE?Why do we pursue CE?

• Keeps perfusion current – Does not lag due to validity– Updated at each meeting/day of issue– Presents evidence in peer reviewed

format

• Is specific to areas of interest/concern– Not areas deemed important by a

committee

• Keeps perfusion current – Does not lag due to validity– Updated at each meeting/day of issue– Presents evidence in peer reviewed

format

• Is specific to areas of interest/concern– Not areas deemed important by a

committee

Logistics Logistics

• Would you propose two exams?– Pediatric and adult– How often would these be updated

• Hospital impact– Time away from work = one CCP– Cost to take exam

• Who pays

• ABCP costs would have to increase

• Would you propose two exams?– Pediatric and adult– How often would these be updated

• Hospital impact– Time away from work = one CCP– Cost to take exam

• Who pays

• ABCP costs would have to increase

Don’t be confused!!!Don’t be confused!!!

• Don’t confuse:– Certified with Qualified– Recertification with Improved Quality

• Experience, commitment, practice and involvement may = Quality

• Don’t confuse:– Certified with Qualified– Recertification with Improved Quality

• Experience, commitment, practice and involvement may = Quality

Who do you want behind the pump for your procedure? Board certified or a quality

outcomes driven tenured CCP?

Conciderations Conciderations

• Legal implications?

• Licensure

• Consequences for failure, missing test?

• Legal implications?

• Licensure

• Consequences for failure, missing test?

ConclusionConclusion

• I hate to think what would happen if my pager went off at 9 years 12 months 30 days and 23 hours post my most recent certification…

Legally, I would no longer be qualified to operate the bypass equipment when the patient was ready!!!!

As bad as when we have to change our oxygenator after 6 hours!!

• I hate to think what would happen if my pager went off at 9 years 12 months 30 days and 23 hours post my most recent certification…

Legally, I would no longer be qualified to operate the bypass equipment when the patient was ready!!!!

As bad as when we have to change our oxygenator after 6 hours!!

ConclusionConclusion

Perfusionists are some of the most dedicated individuals in the operating room.

– Taking another exam will not improve this.– Increasing the CE requirement may increase

our knowledge and improve our change/acceptance of change rate

Finally, I can find no evidence to support the idea that recertification

will improve our profession!!

Perfusionists are some of the most dedicated individuals in the operating room.

– Taking another exam will not improve this.– Increasing the CE requirement may increase

our knowledge and improve our change/acceptance of change rate

Finally, I can find no evidence to support the idea that recertification

will improve our profession!!

Tom Preston BS, CCT, CCPThe Heart Center

Nationwide Children’s HospitalColumbus, OH

Tom Preston BS, CCT, CCPThe Heart Center

Nationwide Children’s HospitalColumbus, OH

PRO/CON

CCP’s Should ^be required to sit for exams every 10 years to recertify (like MD’s)

PRO/CON

CCP’s Should ^be required to sit for exams every 10 years to recertify (like MD’s)

NOT