Reporting Period Documentation
and Early Audit news: When, Where and How
New! Continuing Competence Reporting
Easily track your Continuing Competence points
A portion of the first continuing competence reporting period has already gone by. How are you doing earning your points? Do you have a system for documenting your activities so they are easily reportable when the time comes? Because continuing competence activities are a requirement for licensure renewal, licensees will have to comply with reporting of the activities completed to date.
Activities are not required to be complete until the end of the reporting period (12-31-2010), but the Practice Act does require “periodic reporting” of continuing competence activities. The Practice Act states the Board will: (3a) Establish mechanisms for assessing the continuing competence of licensed physical therapists or physical therapist assistants to engage in the practice of physical therapy, including approving rules requiring licensees to periodically, or in response to complaints or incident reports, submit to the Board:
- (i) evidence of continuing education experiences;
- (ii) evidence of minimum standard accomplishments; or
- (iii) evidence of compliance with other Board-approved measures, audits, or evaluations; and specify remedial actions if necessary or desirable to obtain license renewal or reinstatement;
The Board has completed the Continuing Competence Reporting Form that will allow licensees to report information easily and directly to the Board using a web-based tool. This is easily accessible from the Board website and is available now. A licensee may complete license renewal and Continuing Competence Reporting progress in one location. Go to www.ncptboard.org, Home page for more information. Try it! It’s easy.
