Regulating Physicians: Professional Authority, Licensure, and Certification

Licensure and Professional Certification Renewal Requirements: 2017 Survey Results.

What Happens After Medical School? Current Controversies About Licensure, Maintenance of Certification, and Continuing Professional Development.

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...

Calculating and Evaluating Trustworthiness of Certification Authority

In a public key infrastructure trust model, a trust is transferred along a set of certificates, issued by certificate authorities (CAs) considered as trustfully third parties, providing a trust chain among its entities. In order to deserve this trustworthiness, a CA should to apply the rigorous procedures for generating keys, checking the identities, and following reliable security practices. A...

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...