Professionalization and Credentialing

I. Specialization and Professionalization: A Look at the Issues Accreditation, Credentialing, Professionalization: The Role of Specialties

This article provides an overview of standards development, accreditation, and credentialing with particular attention to specialties. There is much to celebrate with regard to progress and successes. On the other hand, even a cursory review of the history of counseling and its current status leaves questions begging for answers. A number of unresolved issues are considered, and the pros and co...

Professionalization in healthcare chain

Background: Several elements influence the process of professionalization. The focus is on the process of professionalization in the healthcare chain. A special emphasis proportion was given to the field of nursing and its gradual transition to the profession. During the transition process endogenous and exogenous environment act as elements which should be identified. Methods: Data were analys...

Professionalization of Exercise Physiologyonline

Venture Capital and the Professionalization

This paper examines empirical evidence on the impact that venture capitalists can have on the development path of new firms. We use a hand-collected data set on Silicon Valley start-up companies that allows us to “look inside the black box” and analyze the influence of venture capital on the professionalization of firms’ internal organization. The evidence suggests that there is a “soft” facet ...

Professionalization of Exercise Physiologyonline

Introduction Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) or maximum aerobic capacity, as it is known by exercise physiologists, is not a new topic by any means. The idea that the human body cannot survive without oxygen has been known for millennia. However, the notion that oxygen and its delivery and subsequent metabolism by exercising muscles is crucial to prolonged activity is relatively new, having fir...