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NRRPT
fiveeleven:
"watt will nrrpt qualify yew fore in a hospital?"
The NRRPT exam is not a qualification. It is a personal/professional achievement. It is sometimes a preferred prerequisite for getting hired, as well as a future expectation by the company doing the hiring. There are numerous benefits/advantages for a registered RPT in all areas where radiation protection services are required. There are de minimis disadvantages. The NRRPT exam will have little impact on skills required to be a competent/ "good" field operations/job-coverage RPT. If one already has these skills, they will not be diminished on passing the exam. In the pre-TMI time period (76-79), there was a pretty equal distribution between registered medical RPTs and all the rest. Post TMI not so much. Bottom line - your career as a RPT, Health Physicist, and any other category that requires radiation protection services, will be enhanced to some degree by passing the exam.
Marlin:
--- Quote from: fiveeleven on Mar 20, 2022, 06:58 ---"watt will nrrpt qualify yew fore in a hospital?"
The NRRPT exam is not a qualification. It is a personal/professional achievement. It is sometimes a preferred prerequisite for getting hired, as well as a future expectation by the company doing the hiring. There are numerous benefits/advantages for a registered RPT in all areas where radiation protection services are required. There are de minimis disadvantages. The NRRPT exam will have little impact on skills required to be a competent/ "good" field operations/job-coverage RPT. If one already has these skills, they will not be diminished on passing the exam. In the pre-TMI time period (76-79), there was a pretty equal distribution between registered medical RPTs and all the rest. Post TMI not so much. Bottom line - your career as a RPT, Health Physicist, and any other category that requires radiation protection services, will be enhanced to some degree by passing the exam.
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Well said. When I took it it was more ego than any practical application, rarely got me an extra dime. Every plant or facility I went to as a job shopper defined whether of not I was a technician depending on its needs and requirements. With the NRRPT I did not need someone to tell me if I was a technician/technologist. I haven't worked in rad for a couple of decades but even with other nuclear disciplines it looks good on a resume.
Well done indoprime [salute]
SloGlo:
--- Quote from: indoprime on Mar 18, 2022, 06:59 ---....but I finally did it. After 2yrs and three tries, I finally passed the NRRPT in Feb. 2022. ...Now, I've done my share for power plants and what not. I'm sticking with the hospitals.
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may bee "qualify" gave miss information. aye wondered watt r.p. work wood be at a hospital. eye thought that the nuc med personnel took care of rad pro under the auspices of drs, radiologists, n procedures. sew, i wasn't sure how nrrpt interacted.
Mounder:
Actually, a VA Hospital posting for a health physicist will take the NRRPT cert as being qualified....
SloGlo:
tanks.
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