13. Maintaining Your ABSA Credentials: I have it, now how do I keep it?
A distance learning opportunity
September 27, 2023
12:30 – 2:00 pm (CDT)
Registration for the live webinar must be completed 1 business day prior to the start of the training.
Registrations received after will receive access to the recording only.
Maintaining Your ABSA Credentials: I have it, now how do I keep it? is a webinar designed for those who currently hold the ABSA International Registered Biosafety Professional (RBP) and/or Certified Biological Safety Professional (CBSP) credentials. The webinar will outline the re-credentialing process, review form options, and highlight the various ways to earn credentialing maintenance (CM) points, including tips on finding lower cost professional development opportunities. Presenters will review how and when approval is needed and explain how to complete the Application for Credentialing Maintenance Points form for an activity not already on the approved list of professional development opportunities. The webinar will provide ideas for tracking activities over the 5-year period, guidance on what records to save in case you are chosen for audit, and tips on avoiding common mistakes throughout the process. A brief tour of the relevant areas of the ABSA website will be shown and then there will be time for questions and answers.
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the re-credentialing process
- Identify ways to earn CM points, including lower cost options
- Restate the effective methods for keeping track of re-credentialing activities, including keeping records required for audits
- Explain how and when to complete the Application for Credentialing Maintenance Points form
- Locate the information needed in relation to re-certification on the ABSA International website
- Recognize and avoid common mistakes in the re-credentialing process
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Any person that currently holds an ABSA RBP or CBSP credential
- Future applicants for one of these credentials
COURSE FACULTY
The webinar will be presented by two members of ABSA International’s Credentialing Maintenance Board: Hallie Hoskins, Chair, and Rhonda O’Keefe, Co-chair.
CONTACT HOURS
This course has been approved for 0.125 CM points toward RBP/CBSP recertification. ABSA International is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. This course is approved for 2.0 P.A.C.E.® contact hours. The links to the various invitations for the course will be unique to the user and cannot be shared. The links are for single, individual use only. If more than one occurrence of an individual’s name is on the attendee list for the webinar through Zoom platform, all instances of that person’s name will be removed from the webinar with no refund. The webinar and its associated links are for single, individual use only.
This webinar will be one 1.5-hour session on Thursday, September 27, 2023, at 12:30 pm (CDT). For the webinar session, you should plan on logging in at 12:15 pm (CDT). You are required to attend the webinar session, and to complete and/or access all the modules in the course on the training site to receive the completion certificate through the ABSA International Training Site. Within the registration confirmation, there will be a link for attendees to submit questions prior to the webinar. These questions will assist presenters in knowing what the attendees want to learn. The link in the invitation will be unique to the user and cannot be shared.
COURSE FEES
ABSA Members: Free
Nonmembers: $30 USD
To obtain the ABSA member rate, the participant will need to be an ABSA member in the year in which the training is offered. Course fees include: course handouts, access to the ABSA International training site, and 1.5 hours of interactive instruction from well-respected subject matter experts.
Group Discount:
10% off each registration for 3-4 participants from the same organization
20% off each registration for 5-9 participants from the same organization
30% off each registration for 10 or more participants from the same organization
Contact the ABSA office to register your group
To obtain the ABSA member rate, the participant will need to be an ABSA member in the year in which the training is offered. Confirmed, paid participants will be sent detailed information regarding the course within a few days prior to the course. Substitutions allowed with notice by 8/30/2023. There is a 15% processing fee for cancellations prior to 8/30/2023. Cancellations between 8/30/2023 and 9/6/2023 will be refunded at 50% of the course fee. No refunds after 9/6/2023.
The links to the various invitations for the course will be unique to the user and cannot be shared. The links are for single, individual use only. If more than one occurrence of an individual’s name is on the attendee list for the webinar through Zoom platform all instances of that person’s name will be removed from the webinar with no refund. The webinar and its associated links are for single, individual use only.
QUESTIONS
Please direct questions about this course to:
KariAnn DeServi, MEd
Director of Education, ABSA International
866.425.1385 / education@absa.org
