Typo found on NREMT-B recert form

By JOHN HULTGREN
Kentucky EMS Connection

LOUISVILLE — An error on a National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians' EMT-B recertification form mistakenly says that all continuing education must be completed within a one-year period.

EMTs must complete all of their required continuing education within their registration cycle, so they actually have a two-year period.

On page 4 of the recertification form that NREMT recently mailed to all EMT-Bs with registrations expiring March 31, 2001, the fourth bullet item for Section II states:

All continuing education must have been completed within the current registration cycle (April 1, 1999 - March 31, 2000).

An unidentified staff worker who answered the phone at NREMT's office in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday was unaware of the error.

"She did agree it was an error, and she said to cross out '2000' and change it to '2001'", said John Hultgren of STATCARE.

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