Introduction of Guest Editor Edward McCann, PhD, RN, RPN

Software Testing - Guest Editor Introduction

Many open problems exist for the Software Testing community. Products released with inadequate testing can cause bodily harm, result in large economic losses, and affect the quality of day-to-day life. Many innovative techniques exist for testing systems in different domains. In this special issue, we solicited papers that focus on important problems within the Software Testing community. We re...

Introduction to the Guest Editor

Guest Editor\'s Note

Although Occupational Therapy in Iran is relatively a new profession, it has been well progressed, providing various services for people with all kinds of disabilities. As such, in the last decades, OT has been recognized as the major demand in all governmental, private and NGO sectors. Due to this demand, occupational therapy training programs have been increased from three into ten, expecting...

Development and evaluation of an RN/RPN utilization toolkit.

PURPOSE To develop and evaluate a toolkit for Registered Nurse/Registered Practical Nurse (RN/RPN) staff mix decision-making based on the College of Nurses of Ontario's practice standard for utilization of RNs and RPNs. METHODS Descriptive exploratory. The toolkit was tested in a sample of 2,069 inpatients on 36 medical/surgical units in five academic and two community acute care hospitals in...

Barbara a . Broome , Phd , Rn Culture Counts

Culturally incompetent communication patterns with providers influence the health disparities of African Americans. Limited knowledge exists on cross-racial nurse practitioner nurse-patient relationships (NP-NPRs). The purpose of this paper is to describe how NPs and patients in cross-racial relationships developed primary care relationships in one nurse managed center (NMC). A qualitative desi...