Talk:Nursing board certification

My beef is who certifies the certifier? It's fairly well known that no one certifies JCAHO except themselves. Getting their "certification" costs a ton of money and really can't guarantee anything. JCAHO has no authority to close a facility. The health department can do that. JCAHO can't. But they're created their own necessity.

A certified Critical Care Nurse? You can start your own business and come up with your own certification program. Same thing with offering CEU's. Just buy a business license and submit your paperwork to your nursing board and they'll recognize you as being able to offer and sell CEU's.

And CPR? The American Heart Association and The American Red Cross seem to have the business of selling CPR certifications kind of tied up. You can buy a certification from other businesses, but there is NO legal basis for excluding their acceptance when applying for a job at a certain hospital. Some hospital state that you must be AHA certified in CPR. Some business state that their classes are held to same same standards, or exceed the standards of the AHA.

Joe's CPR certification may well kick the pants off of the AHA.

There just ain't no legal basis here. It's not a license. It's a so-called certification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.14.186 (talk) 23:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)