The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) requires all emergency medical professionals to complete the recertification process every two years. NREMT recertification rules are meant to ensure your knowledge remains up to speed. There are also specific criteria around the number of hours of study you complete as part of your continued professional development and the content areas you cover.
While there may be a difference between NREMT and state recertification processes, it remains best practice for anybody who holds an NREMT qualification to keep their certification current!
Understanding the NREMT Recertification Rules
The first thing to clarify for any candidates currently studying for their initial certification through the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) is that recertification does not mean taking the exams every couple of years. Instead, recertification is a mandatory process through which you provide evidence of completing a minimum number of hours of educational training, whether in a classroom, through a program, or via The Paramedic Coach’s user-friendly online recertification course.
We’ve put together our CAPCE-accredited program to make it easy and convenient to comply with all the requirements without spending hours in lecture halls or struggling to keep up with your commitments alongside your working hours.
Minimum Hours of Continuing Education at Each NREMT Level
The amount of time you’ll need to spend refreshing your knowledge and learning about new events, protocols, or updates in the emergency medical field will depend on your current certification level. Every two years, you’ll need to complete whichever of the below requirements applies:
- Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs): sixteen hours
- Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs): forty hours
- Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians (AEMTs): fifty hours
- Paramedics: sixty hours
If this sounds like a lot, rest assured that our online program is designed with easy-to-digest video content that is accessible at any time of your choosing for an entire year. You can chip away at your recertification hours however you like.
Covering the Correct Content Areas During NREMT Recertification Study
The next consideration is that the NREMT sets out some exact requirements, as well as guidelines and suggestions about the content you study within those educational hours, again, depending on your certification level. This means that, whether you’re completing sixteen or sixty hours of study, you can’t pick and choose any subjects you like at random but need to follow the breakdowns of the content split into components. It works like this:
- The national component makes up half of the recertification hours. It includes the same topics you’ll have studied for the original NREMT exam, such as airway, ventilation and respiration, cardiology, and resuscitation.
- Local and individual content must remain within the guidelines. Still, depending on your state, you may have greater freedom to decide on the relevant subjects and provide evidence that the remaining 50% of your recertification hours fall equally into these components.
We’ve taken care of every detail to ensure our accredited recertification course is fully compliant at every level. Our content is ready for you to access and work through at your own pace, so you won’t need to juggle subject areas or worry about missing any components.
How Does The Paramedic Coach’s NREMT Recertification Program Work?
More than 40,000 students have utilized our Video Vault to achieve first-time passes with flying colors on the NREMT exam, and we know the philosophy and tuition styles that work. However, we’ve also heard time and again that candidates find the recertification requirements tough, can’t allocate enough hours from their working schedule to attend recertification classes, or are concerned that they’ll fail to meet the minimum number of hours.
There was an obvious need for a better approach, so we used our years of expertise supporting NREMT students to design a fully accredited recertification course that is easy to use and teaches you new things every time you need to recertify. Incorporating the same immersive, simplified video content that breaks away from dry, boring conventional lectures ensures recertification is convenient and genuinely useful while delivering your verified recertification confirmation directly to your inbox.
Ready to get started and tick recertification off your to-do list? Just sign up, work through the videos we’ve created and curated for you, complete a quiz after each one, and submit your evaluation form when you’re done!
