Certification versus Credentialing

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...

Use of board certification in ambulatory surgery center credentialing: a pilot study.

Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) play a considerable role in providing surgical care in the United States. However, compared to hospitals, ASCs may have less oversight and less-well-developed policies for credentialing and privileging. Specialty board certification is one metric for measuring physician competence. What proportion of ASCs currently requires board certification for privileging ...

Changes in hospitals' credentialing requirements for board certification from 2005 to 2010.

OBJECTIVE In 2005, we conducted a study of the prevalence of board certification requirements for hospital privileging and found that one-third of hospitals did not require pediatricians to be board certified. In 2010, the American Board of Pediatrics implemented the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. To examine changes in the policies of hospitals regarding requirements for board cert...

Credentialing, certification, and competence: Issues for new and seasoned nurse practitioners.

As new nurse practitioner (NP) graduates enter the workforce, they are faced with the sometimes confusing issues related to establishing credibility in their first job as an advanced practice nurse (APN). Establishing this credibility incorporates not only graduating from an accredited NP program but also dealing with the concepts of certification, licensure, or authorization to practice, and t...

Challenges in certification and credentialing of Pakistani physicians in Middle East