1. All candidates for certification / re-certification must have an active, unencumbered license as an LPN/LVN in the United States or a U.S. territory. 1. Candidates with probationary licenses may apply for a special review of circumstances. See www.napnes.org/certifications for complete details. 2. All certifications will be for a period of three years. This does not effect any currently cert...

Certification terminology In February 1994, the AOA Board of Trustees adopted the following standardized definitions of certification and eliminated certificates of special recognition. General Certification (formerly “Primary Certification”): The primary certification conferred on diplomates who meet the requirements in a specified field of medical practice under the jurisdiction of a certifyi...

INTRODUCTION Official recognition and certification for informatics professionals are essential aspects of workforce development. OBJECTIVE To describe the history, pathways, and nuances of certification in nursing informatics across the globe; compare and contrast those with board certification in clinical informatics for physicians. METHODS (1) A review of the representative literature on...

The application of sociological knowledge, including theory, methods, and skills, has been identified as practice. Within the field practice there are two distinct types - clinical applied (Clark Fritz 1986). In United States (U.S.) Association for Applied Clinical Sociology (AACS) certifies these practitioners at master’s or doctoral level. process involves an evaluation by previously certifie...

BACKGROUND GPs typically sanction absence from work by issuing sickness certificates. There has been some debate recently about changing the way sickness certificates are issued and by whom. However, without understanding GPs' certification practices, their requirements in terms of training and education and how they feel the certification process should or should not be changed, measures aimed...

OBJECTIVES To explore the patient experience, and the role of ophthalmologists and other health and social care professionals in the certification and registration processes and examine the main barriers to the timely certification of patients. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Telephone interviews with health and social care professionals and patients in three areas in England. PARTICIPA...

BACKGROUND Establishing and managing a board certification system is a common concern for many countries. In Japan, the board certification system is under revision. The purpose of this study was to describe present status of internal medicine specialist board certification, to identify factors associated with maintenance of board certification and to investigate changes in area of practice whe...

Information systems (IS) departments are organizing more of their work into projects. Thus, the project management profession is growing and project managers are becoming more and more important to their success. The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers certification of project managers. The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, first offered in 1984, has gained a positive r...

Certification has been identified by multiple organizations as an important component and means of elevating the level of nursing care provided to patients and demonstrating to the public that the nursing staff has subspecialty knowledge. Certification may lead to improved patient satisfaction and outcomes as well as increased nurse satisfaction and retention. Despite the known potential benefi...

Certification of safety-critical software is a multi-disciplinary topic. Process assessment is an essential part of that, but is not enough for software certification. Certification employs also several other method families, like inspections and reviews, independent V&V, conformance with selected reference standard(s) and use of selected measurements and analyses. Process assessment supports d...