PURPOSE This paper aims to explore how surveying benefits accreditation surveyors and the organisations in which they are regularly employed. The purpose is to examine from the perspective of senior executives who pursue this form of secondary professional activity, what they seek from being surveyors and what they believe they gain from the experience. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The data we...

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...

T he American public tends to place a great deal of trust in those mechanisms that protect or serve the public interest. For example, we usually take it for granted that the hair stylist, plumber, or exterminator are competent because we recognize that each of these practitioners must pass a test or meet specified standards to qualify for a license. Similarly, we assume that public water suppli...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education work-hour limitations (WHLs) were implemented in July 2003. Effects on resident well-being, patient care, and education are not well understood. We investigated these effects of WHLs. METHODS Self-administered survey of internal medicine residents in a university-based residency program in Seattle, Wash. Part of this survey w...

This article addresses how nurse planners and nursing professional development practitioners can meet Educational Design Process 3 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center Primary Accreditation criteria that also corresponds with the Association for Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards of Practice7. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2018;49(3):102-104.

“We tend to default too quickly to top-down rather than peer review as the best way of improving standards,” the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is reported as saying of the NHS. Accreditation is a well established form of external peer review that takes place in education. In healthcare, however, it is patchy, and some clinical services have none. Although accreditation is not a panacea for fai...

BACKGROUND In 2013, the World Health Organization issued guidelines, Transforming and Scaling Up Health Professional Education and Training, to improve the quality and relevance of health professional pre-service education. Central to these guidelines was establishing and strengthening education accreditation systems. To establish what current accreditation systems were for nursing and midwifer...

This article addresses how nursing professional development practitioners and nurse planners can meet the educational design process criterion 2 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center Primary Accreditation process that also corresponds with the Association for Nursing Professional Development's Scope and Standards of Practice. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2018;49(2):52-54.