title: Credentialing: achieving quality in continuing nursing education.
abstract: For more than three decades, the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Accreditation Program has been committed to the delivery of quality continuing nursing education. Changes in the landscape of continuing education have prompted a critical evaluation of the current criteria and have led to some significant revisions. This column provides an overview of these changes.
authors.affiliation: American Nurses Credentialing Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Kathy.Chappell@ana.org
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chappell
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Drenkard
mesh_terms: D003406:Credentialing; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014481:United States