Assessing competency: a new accreditation resource.
Validating the competence of nurses is of increasing importance. This column describes a new program just launched by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation to accredit educational activities that are designed to validate a learner's achievement of competence in an area of nursing knowledge or a skill set.
Allison
MaryMoon
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American Nurses Credentialing Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. marymoon.allison@ana.org
Dickerson
Pamela S
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D000068:Accreditation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000575:American Nurses' Association / Q000458:organization & administration; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States