title: Practice development credentialing in the United Kingdom - a unique framework for providing excellence, accountability and quality in nursing and healthcare.
abstract: This paper will describe the purpose, process and value of an international Practice Development Program by which clinical units can choose to be credentialed. It will describe how the fourteen criteria that a Unit is credentialed against takes them along a journey of practice, personal and professional development that equips them to not only positively respond to, but to proactively influence, the challenges and changes that healthcare is facing globally. It explains how The Program focuses on credentialing sustainable practice development that then contributes to the development of both the capability and capacity of healthcare services. As a result, it crosses professional and organisational boundaries and constraints and concentrates on their shared purpose, delivering excellent patient care.
authors.affiliation: Centre for the Development of Nursing Policy and Practice, University of Leeds, UK. l.j.yates@leeds.ac.uk.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mc Nichol
mesh_terms: D003406:Credentialing / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000592:standards*; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D020399:Practice Management / Q000266:history / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom