Post-Licensure Certification and Credentialing

APRN regulation: the licensure-certification interface.

This article describes the development of a new regulatory model for advanced practice nursing. The history of nursing licensure is detailed to provide a perspective of the differences in the way that advanced practice roles evolved as a result of external forces and patient needs without the direct control of regulators and the resulting variations in the interpretation and implementation of t...

Education, licensure, and certification of school nurses: position statement.

It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that every school-age child deserves a school nurse who has a baccalaureate degree in nursing from an accredited college or university and is licensed as a registered nurse through the state board of nursing. These requirements constitute minimal preparation needed to practice at the entry level of school nursing (American N...

Licensure and Professional Certification Renewal Requirements: 2017 Survey Results.

Licensure, Accreditation, and Certification: Approaches to Health Services Quality

The importance of credentialing: the time for certification is here.

T Citizen Advocacy Center (CAC; www. cacenter.org), a group devoted to public members and the health professional oversight boards on which they serve, focuses on numerous policy issues, especially continuing competence. This is important to us because this is the avenue of public influence on boards of nursing (and other boards) in terms of what the public is concerned with. In the third quart...