This quarter we modified the database to account for the ship classification and ship counting guidance in the Secretary of the Navy’s Instruction 5030.8A [3]. First, we inserted four new fields: 1. 5030.8A Force Category – “Battleforce” or “Non-Battleforce.”1, 2 2. 5030.8A Ship Category – “Combatant Ship,” “Auxiliary Ship,” or “Combatant Craft.” 3. 5030.8A Ship Classification – For example: “W...

The “SCUDHunt” game-based experiments conducted by the CNA Corporation and ThoughtLink Inc during 2000–2002 explored Shared Situational Awareness (SSA) in a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) environment. This paper re-analyses those experiments, with a particular focus on the human dimension of the experimental results. Our re-analysis demonstrates that differences between “good” and “bad” teams ha...

In the last 30 years, Chile has undergone noteworthy economic development and an exponential growth in the access of its population to higher education. The aim of this paper was to review the changes in academic, economic and workforce issues that occurred as a consequence of the growth in supply of undergraduate dental vacancies between 1997 and 2011. Data collected from the Consejo de Educac...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are “registered nurses with additional educational preparation and experience who possess and demonstrate the competencies to autonomously diagnose, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe pharmaceuticals and perform specific procedures within their legislated scope of practice. (Canadian Nurses Association [CNA], 2006, p. 19). The NP role is derived “from blen...

an issue of importance to many national and provincial/territorial nursing organizations and, at the same time, not a central priority for anyone. Opportunities have undoubtedly been lost because of the lack of concerted or coordinated effort to advance the importance of nursing research in addressing quality of care, patient safety, health promotion and a myriad of other topics that affect the...

s for CNA Ki-Net Workshop Dynamics and Geometry from High Dimensional Data-driven

DR. BOREN: Our next speaker, I’m very proud to say, is one of my colleagues from CNA Insurance,Joan Herzog whose in charge of case management. Joan got her bachelor’s in nursing from Loyola University here in Chicago. She got her master’s from St. Francis of Joliet, is a city a little southwest from us. Joan has been very active in all the organizations for case review and she’s going to talk t...