Although accreditation is over 100 years old, the accreditation of information systems programs is a new experience for information systems professionals. This paper describes the important aspects of accreditation as a process of excellence and shows how information systems faculty members can now employ that process to improve the overall quality of their programs for the benefit of their stu...

Professional standards of laboratory practice are partially derived from regulatory and accreditation standards of the federal government as well as those of non-government organizations and professional societies. These standards are monitored by on-site inspection and encompass personnel standards, patient test management requirements, quality control and assurance standards and proficiency t...

Accreditation is usually a voluntary program, in which authorized external peer reviewers evaluate the compliance of a health care organization with pre-established performance standards. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature of the attitude of health care professionals towards professional accreditation. A systematic search of four databases including Medline, Embas...

This article, the fourth part of the educational design series, addresses how nursing professional development practitioners can meet educational design criterion 4 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center primary accreditation process and standards 4 and 5 in the Association for Nursing Professional Development Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice. J Contin Educ...

To flourish, practice accreditation must meet challenges. It needs to manage uncertainty over its effectiveness and cost effectiveness, to address concerns that it erodes professional autonomy, and to promote and elucidate the conditions under which it is appropriate. Lessons from Australia and New Zealand help to focus these challenges. The lessons include the need to reward quality practices,...

OBJECTIVE using the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Global Standards for Midwifery Education as a conceptual framework, the aim of this study was to explore and describe important 'must haves' for inclusion in a context-specific accreditation assessment tool in Bangladesh. DESIGN A questionnaire study was conducted using a Likert rating scale and 111 closed-response single items...

Accreditation as a Chartered Meteorologist (CMet) will assure clients and employers that the individual has reached, and continues to maintain, a high level of competence in their specialist areas of meteorology and has agreed to subscribe to a Code of Conduct laid down by the Society. The scheme is relevant to all professional meteorologists, whether consultants or practising professional mete...

Various organizations are engaged in activities related to assessing the quality of medical care, This appendix describes the efforts of three groups: the American Medical Association (AMA); the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO); and utilization and quality control peer review organizations (PROS). As a professional organization, a nonprofit accrediting b...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has the mission of improving the quality of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate medical education experience for physicians in training. The ACGME oversees 27 Residency Review Committees (RRC), including the Neurology Residency Review Committee (NRRC). Each RRC functions as the ACGME ...