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Recertifying in 2022 and Your Big FAQ about the New 7 CERP Requirement.

The topic areas (or disciplines) for each individual online learning program within that CERP Bundle are listed in our store descriptions of our bundles. Individual programs in our 75-CERP Bundle may be exchanged as necessary, free of charge, to meet the requirements of your Personalized Professional Development Plan (PPDP) from the IBLCE, as long as we have the programs in the CERP quantities and disciplines required. Instructions for exchanging programs in your 75-CERP Bundle may be found here. 

It is best to exchange programs before you complete them. However, if you must exchange a completed program for one of a different topic (discipline), you will lose the credits for the completed program. Essentially, you are exchanging the completed credits for a new program in a discipline that you need for your PPDP.

No. The 7 credits listed on your PDPP come out of the required CERPs and count as part of the CERP requirement. The topic area(s) listed on your PDPP are from the IBLCE’s Detailed Content Outline. To recertify, you need a total of 75 CERPs and that number must include, AT LEAST: 5 E-CERPs, 50 L-CERPs, Basic Life Support (counts as 3 R-CERPs), and at least 17 additional CERPs which may be L-, E-, or R-CERPs. The CERPs required by your PPDP must be of a specific topic area (discipline), based on your self-assessment, and come out of the L-CERPs. So, your recertification CERPs MAY look like this in 2022:

• 5 E-CERPs
• 3 R-CERPs for Basic Life Support
• 7 CERPs in the topic area(s) required by your PPDP
• 43 L-CERPs in any topic area you choose
• 17 CERPs in any CERP topic area(s) you choose, L-, R-, or E-CERP

Using the IBLCE’s Detailed Content Outline, find the required topic area (in the blue rows) and review all of the topics listed under that discipline. To get credits in that topic area, you need a program covering any of these topics. For example, if you need 7 CERPs from the Clinical Skills discipline, find that discipline on the outline. You will see it has 5 topics: Equipment and Technology, Education and Communication, Ethical and Legal Issues, Research, and Public Health and Advocacy. Under each topic, it lists some subtopics that would fall into that topic area. You should look for programs in these topics and then, make sure that it has been identified by the CERP provider to be of the Clinical Skills discipline. We have determined the topic areas for all of our online learning programs. That information is in the store descriptions and will be printed on your certificate.