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A NAHTM Certified Healthcare Transporter is a patient transporter who has achieved proficiency in all competencies outlined in the 3-book course offered by the National Association of Healthcare Transport Management. Those books are Choices: Ethics for the Workplace, Course I; Strategic Skill Building for Transporters, Course II; Healthcare Transporter Technical Skills Training, Course III. Impact Training Corporation (ITC) developed the curriculum in partnership with NAHTM.

In 2002, NAHTM and ITC collaborated to offer a national certification to transporters through a partnership between NAHTM and ITC. The national certification program that evolved is based on an earlier model developed by ITC for Savannah-area hospitals in Georgia and promoted through Savannah's Technical College.

  • NAHTM's role in this partnership is to validate the training program and verify that each candidate recommended for certification has met the competencies required through the certification training. NAHTM awards the national certification.
  • ITC's role is to develop, support, and sell the Transporter certification curriculum materials required for each Transporter trainee to institutions with trained instructors who are ready to implement the Certified Healthcare Transporter training. ITC provides Level I instructor training for those individuals who will deliver the CHT curriculum to patient transporters in their respective organizations. ITC also trains Level II instructors—those individuals who can assist ITC in the training of Level I instructors—through a rigorous apprenticeship. ITC developed, owns, and maintains the currency of the curriculum and the training.

ITC provides Level I Instructor training at least once a year at NAHTM's annual conference. Other Instructor trainings are scheduled virtually, or on-site around the country, as demand requires.

The Certified Healthcare Transporter (CHT) is required to apply for recertification just prior to the five-year anniversary of his or her original certification. The CHT and the CHT's manager will receive a letter from NAHTM alerting the CHT that certification is due for renewal. The CHT may select to renew or opt out. If renewal is chosen, the CHT will start to review material in their training manuals. (Note: If new material has been added during the five-year period since original certification, that material will be sent to the CHT.).

The CHT's manager will receive eight competencies randomly generated for each individual recertification applicant from ITC's computer database for national certification. The CHT will be required to perform the competencies at a proficient level. Appropriate forms, verifying the proficient performance level of the eight competencies and signed by the manager, are sent back to NAHTM. NAHTM approves and sends a renewal certificate, good for another five years. For this service, the fee to NAHTM is $20.00 per recertification.

This individual, probably a transport manager or supervisor, has already achieved the Level I Instructor designation. He or she will have successfully delivered at least one complete transporter certification 3-course training and successfully completed the preceptor process of national certification recommendations. Additionally, he/she will have assisted ITC with the delivery of instructor training. He/she will have successfully completed a number of assignments under ITC's supervision, including reading, assignments, and a written test. Because the level of experience with the delivery of training varies, so will the assignments and activities for instructors who choose to reach benchmarks for achieving the status of Level II Certification Trainer. The time commitment to achieve this high level of training is generally between two and three years, although the time commitment relates to the applicant's background in training, adult skill development, research understanding, and level of knowledge of the training materials.

Level II Certification Trainers will be empowered not only to teach transporters the certification training, but they will also be able to train other transport managers and supervisors to become Level I Certification Instructors under a relationship with ITC. Because of the individual nature of this much higher level of achievement, the fee charged will relate to the amount of ITC professional time required for coaching and evaluation. It may also include travel time for ITC to observe and coach certification trainer candidates. After an instructor is certified by ITC as a Level II trainer, he or she will be eligible for contracted training assignments and paid by ITC for their work, according to demand.

These strict training criteria are adhered to in order to maintain the integrity and standardization of the national transporter certification process.

Transporter certification candidates must complete all three NAHTM-sanctioned courses and meet the competencies following each course in order to apply for certification. Impact Training Company (ITC) owns the certification training product and manages all phases of delivery of its product in collaboration with its NAHTM partner. Courses must be delivered as written, within the parameters described, to ensure that all certification candidates have equal and adequate exposure to and training on the certification contents.

To serve as a preceptor for Course III, Healthcare Transporter Technical Skills Training, the trainer must be a transport manager or supervisor to have the depth of knowledge about transporter job duties necessary for making judgments about each individual candidate's performance.

PLEASE NOTE: Course III is "hands-on" training (e.g., technical job procedures.). If transporters are currently working, it is likely that the instructor will review the skills applications in Course III with candidates and then give opportunities for candidates to demonstrate the required competencies. It is possible that the instructor will ask the candidates to review Book III and study areas of which they are not sure. If a candidate does not meet a particular competency, he/she can work with the instructor to perfect the competency and then go through the observation process again to demonstrate the competency. If the instructor thinks the candidate has had adequate experience with the competencies in Book III, he/she may opt to allow the candidate to review the contents of Book III on his/her own (or as part of an instructor-led review) and then observe the performance of the competencies to see if the student has met the competencies.

There are general delivery times recommended for each of the three courses that make up the certification preparation. The courses normally require two-hour time blocks, twice per week, for delivery. When a technical or community college offers the curriculum (as opposed to healthcare institutions delivering it themselves), they identify each course as 40 training hours. If trainees are new (or potentially new) transporters, then these institutions may add 40 clinical hours to course III, which is supervised on-the-job technical training. Course 3 requires 10 training hours, and is a review or technical skills for those already on the job.

The set of three books costs $310.00 per trainee, plus shipping. Each certification candidate needs his/her own set of books that are consumable. Order books from this site ImpactTrainingCompany.com Company, for additional information via phone (504.343.7043) or via e-mail ([email protected]). If the healthcare institution is non-profit and exempt from taxes, please notify ITC.

The present certification fee is $30.00, payable to NAHTM, and submitted with the application and documentation (as per directions in the Instructor's Guide) of the candidate's having met all of the competencies.

Certified transporters their names in the national certification transporters list, which NAHTM may place on its website, NAHTM.org.

If your goal is to deliver the training directly to transporters, then Level I Instructor Certification will meet that need.

Level I: Instructor Certification. This training consists of two eight-hour training days. The fee, if provided at a NAHTM-sponsored location, is $1100.00 per trainee, which includes the Instructor Guides (which are normally priced at $600 per course). Note that even though a site may send several staff to CHT training, a training site normally only requires one set of instructor guides. Those transport managers or supervisors who earn Instructor Training Certification will be empowered to train transporters in the three certification courses, provide "preceptorship" (observe and evaluate the competencies gained by transporters completing the training) and make recommendations for national certification awards to NAHTM.

If the organizational goal is to train Certified Level I instructors to deliver the NAHTM National Certification Training for Instructors in concert with ITC, ITC will provide Level II Trainer Certification. Please see the Level II training item below.

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