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Name Post-nominal Abbreviation Agency or Description Juris Doctor: J.D. An academic, not a professional designation. Identifies a person who has obtained the academic degree Juris Doctor or Doctor of Jurisprudence, which are different names for the same professional degree in law.
Abbreviation Organization or personnel AA: Alcoholics Anonymous: AABB: AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks: AACN: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: AAD: American Association of Dermatology: AADGP: American Academy of Dental Group Practice: AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians: AAIN: American ...
Healthcare professional credentials are credentials awarded to many healthcare practitioners as a way to standardize the level of education and ability to provide care.
List of abbreviations in photography; List of glossing abbreviations (grammatical terms used in linguistic interlinear glossing) List of legal abbreviations; List of medical abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; Reporting mark (owners of rolling stock and other railway equipment) List of style guide ...
Professional titles in the anglophone world are usually used as a suffix following the person's name, such as John Smith, Esq., and are thus termed post-nominal letters. However, many European countries use prenominal letters such as Eur Ing. In the UK, many professional titles are 'chartered' such as Chartered Engineer or Chartered Physicist.
Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters, or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.
An EMS provider's post-nominal (listed after the name) credentials usually follow his or her name in this order: Highest earned academic degree in or related to medicine, (e.g. "MD") Highest licensure or certification (e.g. "NRP") Further certifications (e.g. "CCEMT-P") Generally, credentials are listed from most to least prestigious.
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).