Accreditation

Imagine if companies got serious about working their members, their staff through that program, that in and of itself would make a significant change.

AWT has also, for the last few years, gotten very serious about getting a third-party quality management system seal of approval for the CWT program, and that is the ANSI accreditation.

We've been diligently working toward this, and for those of you who work with ISO and ASTM, ANSI, and your daily jobs, you know that the criteria is extremely rigorous.

It is no different when you're trying to certify a certification program.

We're working with all of our vendors to make sure that the contracts are where they need to be.

We're making sure as an organization, we're compliant with every single policy procedure and and anything that one fine day an auditor might find in the margins.

Our intention is to get our accreditation within the next year, and I think that's going to be another big shot in the arm for us.

I will leave it at it's going to be an all hands on deck comprehensive initiative to expand the reach of the CW2 program.

There was agreement.

And then it was only this year that the first approved university programs became available.

And just recently, The first graduates from those first approved, there's five programs currently in Australia, five universities offering the program.

It is postgraduate study.

And there are, I think, a few more universities.

We had an update at the APNIC conference and they said there's a few more universities in hoping to get their programs approved.

And then there'll be even more programs that nurses can enroll in to undertake programs.

The study is required.