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Original Work, Cite, Reference, APA7, No Plagiarism 1 page for each school

This paper is comparing both colleges (University of Michigan and Michigan State University) regarding their Nurse Practitioner program using the LACE Guidelines.

· Licensure is how a member of a profession is granted the ability to practice. State agencies and the legislature define advanced-practice nursing, decide who can prescribe and determine the requirements for licensure.

· Accreditation is the process of evaluating schools of nursing and their programs nationwide. Accrediting bodies have published essentials for advanced-practice education.

· Certification concerns the evaluation of an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities in a specialty. For most states, one component of advanced-practice licensure is certification. Licensure and certification, however, are separate processes.

· Education refers to advanced-practice educational programs at the master’s post-master’s and doctoral levels and is intertwined with certification and accreditation. At this point, psychiatric mental health nurses are educated as either clinical nurse specialists or nurse practitioners. A small number of PMH programs are “blended,” educating nurses as both clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners.

University of Michigan	Michigan State University
Are both schools following the LACE guidelines? If so, what evidence do you find to support this?	Are both schools following the LACE guidelines? If so, what evidence do you find to support this?