Between 1945 and the early 1970s, both Indian Health Services in Canada (IHS), and the Alaska Native Health Service (ANS) initiated programs and activities aimed at recruiting and training nurses/nurses aides from Canadian and Alaskan Native communities. In Alaska, the Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka acted as a training facility for Alaska Native nurses' aides, while in Canada, the Charles Cams...

A Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU), established in a district hospital in India, substantially reduced the neonatal mortality rate in the district; it, however, suffered from a dearth of trained nurses. Local girls with 10-12 years of school education underwent structured and hands-on training for six months, followed by a six-month internship at the SNCU and were assigned to it as stipendiary 'Ne...

Older adults living in residential long-term care or nursing homes have increasingly complex needs, including more dementia than in the past, yet we know little about the unregulated workforce providing care. We surveyed 1,381 care aides in a representative sample of 30 urban nursing homes in the three Canadian Prairie provinces and report demographic, health and well-being, and work-related ch...

OBJECTIVES Evaluate Internet training to help nurse aides decrease resident aggression. DESIGN Randomized treatment and control design; pre-post assessment. SETTING The study was conducted entirely on the Internet. PARTICIPANTS Nurse aides; N = 62. INTERVENTION Internet-based interactive training using video modeling and mastery learning instructional design. MEASUREMENTS Video situat...

In this paper a new modified Cramer-Rao lower bound (MCRLB) for multipath time-delay estimation is developed for DS-CDMA systems. The lower variance bound of each estimated path delay is determined via computer simulations using the theoretical results, and it is compared with an efficient and practical delay estimation method, namely peak tracking with pulse subtraction. Simulation results sho...