Assisting Nursing Students to Plan for Retirement

Assisting nursing students to plan for retirement.

Nursing Students’ Perspectives on Assisting Cancer Patients

Objective The objective of this study was to examine the experiences of student nurses who have provided care to cancer patients. Methods A mixed method approach consisting of semistructured focus groups (n = 61) and a survey questionnaire (n = 129) was used in the study. Student nurses were first interviewed, and then, a questionnaire was developed for them to answer. Following the content a...

Retirement Plan Selection

We study the effect of incorporating heterogeneity into default rules by examining the choice between retirement plans at a firm which transitioned from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) plan. The default plan for existing employees varied discontinuously depending on their age. Employing regression discontinuity techniques, we find that the default increased the probability...

Technologies for Electronically Assisting Nursing Communication

New information and computing technologies promise new virtual learning and communication opportunities within the real communities of health care professionals. The Assisted Electronic Communication project has been prototyping, administering and evaluating an integrated digital discourse, webcasting and digital newsletter system, for health care professionals within one such community an acut...

An Early-Retirement Plan for the States

New applications of nite automata, such as NLP and asynchronous circuit simulation, can require automata of millions or even billions of states. All known construction methods (in particular, the interesting reachability-based ones that save memory, such as the subset construction, and simultaneously minimizing constructions, such as Brzozowski's) have intermediate memory usage much larger than...