How Do I Renew My CPR - Can I Do It Online? What about CEs?

CPR and CEs all the Renewal News

Friday, July 3, 2020

Hello Maryland AMTA Members,

How do I renew my CPR certification? Can I do it online? Are two questions we have seen a lot over the past week or two. We have also fielded a few questions about the CEs required for renewal lately.

Read on for all of the details, with one important note; AMTA-MD does not recommend any specific vendor or classes. We are going to post this newsletter on our Facebook pages and encourage members to make their own recommendations - so please follow us over to Facebook if you want some ideas for CPR and CE classes. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/amtamd.

And if you have recommendations - please also follow the link and let your colleagues know what has worked for you!

We welcome questions, you may ask on Facebook, reply to this email, or visit our website for a submission form. The website has been updated and it includes an archive of many of our newsletters as well. http://md.wp.amtamassage.org/

Take good care,

Amelia

Amelia Mitchell, LMT, LLCC, BCTMB

Board Member and Government Relations Committee Chair

for

David Madon, Mark Hamilton, and Chelsea Adams-Cook

Your AMTA-Maryland Chapter Board

CPR RENEWALS FOR 2020 AND BEYOND

2020 may be the year that you don't want to do your CPR renewal in person. And that is ok.

You may RENEW online, it is accepted by the Maryland Board of Massage Therapy Examiners.

There are also in-person renewals that are using new safety protocols.

CPR Certification

All licensees and registrants are required to keep their CPR certifications up to date at all times, and may be asked to document that at renewal. This isn't a requirement that is specific to renewal, we must always have our CPR up to date.

While the original certification generally needs to be completed in person, renewals can be done either online completely or in a hybrid online/in person class.

LMTs are required to carry the Health Care Basic Life Support BLS level CPR

RMPs are required to carry basic CPR

You do not have to renew with the American Heart Association or the Red Cross - they are big names in the field, however many other trainings meet the America Heart Association standards.

AMTA-MD does not make specific recommendations for vendors or classes. Please join us on our Facebook page to crowdsource some ideas. Share what has worked for you on the post for this newsletter, or collect some ideas for yourself:

https://www.facebook.com/amtamd

One note:

The American Heart Association has provided a 120 day extension for those certifications that expire between March and June 2020. That will provide a temporary relief, however renewal would be required by November 2020 at the latest if you fall into this category.

CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

FOR 2020 RENEWAL

Renewal Information for 2020

Things are a bit different in Maryland this year.

We are required to renew by October 31, 2020, or 30 days after the state of emergency declared by Governor Hogan is lifted. The MBMTE is moving forward with opening online renewal late this summer and will extend it if necessary due to the state of emergency.

You only need your 7 required CEs plus CPR to renew in 2020.

The 17 elective CEs are waived.

That is: 3 hours of Ethics and Jurisprudence, 3 hours of Communicable Disease, and 1 hour of Cultural Diversity.

As stated above, we will ask our members to add their CE recommendations to our Facebook page - head on over to https://www.facebook.com/amtamd for some ideas or share a recommendation.

You can find quite a few CE classes online through AMTA's National Website: www.amtamassage.org many of them are free at the moment.

Carry-Over of the 17 Elective CEs

At the recommendation of the Licensing Committee the Board voted not to carry-over the 17CEs that some of us have earned to the 2022 renewal period AT THIS TIME.

They made this choice to allow the Board in place at that time to make the decision and allow them to take appropriate actions for the 2022 renewal. Given the pandemic situation and how unknown the next couple of years will be, they felt it was more prudent to wait on such action.

AMTA-MD assures our members that we will circle back to this question in 2022.

For Your July Calendar

AMTA - MD's monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday July 15th at 8pm - an invitation will be emailed to our members.

The MBMTE monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday July 22nd at 10am, connection info is posted on their website the Friday before the meeting.