The general approach to protecting the public includes ensuring a level of competency among health care professionals. Licensure is a:
1. Formal recognition of a person as a professional with competence
2. Voluntary approach to quality control
3. Contract between the profession and the state
4. Mechanism by which a state government agency grants corporate status to insti-tutions
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Individual licensure is a contract between the profession and the state. Under this contract, the profession is granted control over entry into and exit from the profession. Choice No. 1 is cre-dentialing.
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