ALA-APA Support Staff Certification

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Critical care staff nurses: empowerment, certification, and intent to leave.

BACKGROUND Certification is a voluntary process that is used to recognize specialized knowledge and skills. Little research has been focused on staff nurses with specialty certification. OBJECTIVE To determine if perceptions of empowerment and intent to leave the position and the profession differed among staff nurses who were certified by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, nur...

Certification Support for Automatically Generated Programs

Although autocoding techniques promise large gains in software development productivity, their “real-world” application has been limited, particularly in safety-critical domains. Often, the major impediment is the missing trustworthiness of these systems: demonstrating—let alone formally certifying—the trustworthiness of automatic code generators is extremely difficult due to their complexity a...

Support for NBCOT certification renewal program.

Support for NBCOT Certification Renewal Program As currel1t or former members of occupational therapy state regulatory bodies, we strongly suppOrt the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy's (NBCOT's) approach to certification renewal. Contrary to the concluding point of Low's article, "NBCOT and State ReglJatory Agencies: Allies or Adversaries?" (AJOT, January 1997, pp. 74-7...

Academic Library Support Staff Competencies: What Should Support Staff Know and Be Able to Do?

Rachel Applegate is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis; e-mail: [email protected] Over half of all non-student employees of academic libraries are support staff. What competencies should these workers possess? To what extent are these competencies similar across library departments and across library types—in what ways do they diff...