What's the difference between accredit and credential?

Accredit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  • (v. t.) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  • (v. t.) To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
  • (v. t.) To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There, the US Joint Commission, an independent, non-profit organisation that accredits healthcare organisations and programmes has issued a standard on “behaviours that undermine a culture of safety” to tackle “intimidating and disruptive behaviour at work”.
  • (2) When accreditation is viewed and administered appropriately, it is an opportunity for self-improvement and a tool for quality assurance.
  • (3) 19 August Consultation on changes to FIT accreditation closes.
  • (4) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
  • (5) Our plan is to have 200 Pearl accredited homes by the end of 2016 to help meet the UK's growing need for specialist dementia care centres with specially trained staff.
  • (6) Residency programs supply institutional pharmacy with mature, highly skilled clinical and managerial practitioners, and ASHP's accreditation process ensures the programs' quality.
  • (7) The initial QA program, implemented in 1984, was based on 25 specific criteria and on the periodic evaluation process that was stressed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals at that time.
  • (8) The program is based on accreditation of flocks that have passed two successive serological tests with an interval of six months between and post-accreditation tests every 12 months.
  • (9) We now have 67 Pearl accredited homes with a further 70 working through the pathway to achieve accreditation.
  • (10) He recommended that skilled police officers be paid up to £2,000 more than they are now, and said a new expertise and professional accreditation allowance of £1,200 would be introduced for most detectives, firearms, public order and neighbourhood policing teams.
  • (11) She had been accredited to cover the Games as a journalist.
  • (12) The middle term attracts the most scepticism, based on the presumption that just because your field isn't professionally accredited, you do not know anything and you can't process information.
  • (13) We conducted a survey of all accredited emergency medicine residency programs in the United States to determine the content of EMS instruction provided to these physicians-in-training.
  • (14) A broad range of projects are eligible for CDM accreditation, with the notable exceptions of nuclear power and avoided deforestation projects.
  • (15) This article describes a documentation format for Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standard 6.
  • (16) The least satisfaction was accredited to the difficulty of unscheduled access to the clinic and the lack of continuity with the providers of care.
  • (17) Six factors were identified: pharmacy-medicine linkage, advanced training or degree, drug administration, quality assurance and accreditation, supportive personnel, and pharmacy-nursing conflict.
  • (18) Its courses aren't accredited, and it has no undergraduates.
  • (19) The claims for accountability through accreditation processes in three areas--hospital administration, general post secondary institutions and nursing--are considered and questions raised in each.
  • (20) But the statement continued: “To suggest that these remarks were an attempt to lobby the prime minister in relation to education policy or to seek special favour in relation to its own accreditation courses is ridiculous.

Credential


Definition:

  • (a.) Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.
  • (n.) That which gives a title to credit or confidence.
  • (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (2) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
  • (3) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
  • (4) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
  • (5) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
  • (6) But the continuing threats to environmental activists represent a major blot on its environment credentials.
  • (7) A small number of hospitals are looking at physicians' economic practice patterns in a credentialing context.
  • (8) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (9) Already in 2014, Proofpoint found a 650% increase in social media spam compared to 2013, and 99% of malicious URLs in inappropriate content led to malware installation or credential phishing sites,” explains the company.
  • (10) Green groups condemn Glencore involvement in Garden Bridge project Read more Meanwhile, disquiet over the bridge’s environmental credentials is gathering momentum.
  • (11) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
  • (12) He scrutinizes the credentials of these candidates and discusses the problem of using autoantibodies to identify causative antigens in a T-cell-mediated disease.
  • (13) His credentials are second to none and I’m positive the club will thrive under his leadership over the coming years.
  • (14) The only difference is that they now must pass the same job-related credentialing examination that American-trained technologists must pass in order to receive the ARRT certificate.
  • (15) This demonetisation step reinforces Modi’s reformist and anti-corruption credentials and raises the prospect of higher long term growth potential,” they wrote in a note to clients.
  • (16) Physicians, other health professionals, and medical scientists have the knowledge and credentials to be these individuals.
  • (17) However, it is early days for Pochettino’s side and Tottenham’s credentials will be fully tested by Liverpool, whose 5-0 victory at White Hart Lane last season led to André Villas-Boas losing his job.
  • (18) She earned her acting credentials playing female characters in a host of hit films and television dramas.
  • (19) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
  • (20) The sale should be stopped unless the bank’s special status is protected.” Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace, added: “A Green Investment Bank that is privatised needs to have its green credentials written in stone.