The legislative mandate of the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA) is to serve and protect the public by ensuring its members deliver safe, competent and ethical nursing care. Practice guidelines provide guidance in a particular aspect of clinical care provision that enables Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) to make informed decisions based on the best available evidence. The...

Business processes are a widespread approach to managing and planning organizational activities. However, human work practices often differ from structured, formal process descriptions. Knowledge on process variations therefore becomes a key aspect in enacting and controlling business processes. Such knowledge usually is informally documented. Traditional paper, carrying handwritten information...

In 1897 Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed Patrick Manson (1844-1922) Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office.' Manson's assumption of that post opened the last fifteen years of his already notable professional life. His primary charge as Medical Adviser was not, as is commonly thought, to advise on policy matters; Manson's main, ifsomewhat less exalted, responsib...

In the modern game of professional and collegiate basketball, automated stat tracking, referee rule verification, and video annotation are popular topics. The core aspect of these improvements is player detection and tracking. This paper presents techniques for court segmentation, player detection, team correlation, player tracking, and court to top-down view homography. For a 125 frame sample ...

Professional socialization is a complex process that leads to the professional identity. While several studies have focused on identity of physicians and nurses, few analyzed this aspect among dieticians. Furthermore, those did not consider influence sociocultural norms. The aim study was analyze construction Brazilian, French Spanish A qualitative methodology based semi-structured interviews s...

Good communication across organizational and professional boundaries is arguably the most crucial aspect to successful integrated care programs. Effective integration of care requires (as a minimum) that health care professionals share information about – and with – patients at appropriate points in the care or treatment process. This, however, will only be possible if the necessary infrastruct...

Most of the world population works in the service sector, which stresses the importance of knowledgeintensive organizations and, consequently, strategic competence management. Knowledge management and the supporting enterprise systems (ESs) have received a lot of researcher attention, but the deployment success rate is not flattering. Therefore, in this 33-month long Action Design Research (ADR...

were agreed that "prevention" inevitably required co-operation, and that one of the tasks today was to increase communication between the specialisms, and to provide an acceptable translation for professional jargon. In each conference, speakers highlighted the aim of this mental health work, which was not prevention or cure, but rather the removal of factors which impeded growth physical, emot...

Body composition is an important aspect of soccer fitness. There is a dearth of longitudinal data on the intraseasonal variation in the body composition parameters of youth professional soccer players especially of Asian origin. This study assessed the body composition profile of the Asian youth professional soccer players (n=20; Mean ± SD, age 17.5 ± 0.3 years, stature 1.73 ± 0.04 m, body mass...

Writing is an important aspect in language teaching and learning in which teacher should continue developing some techniques in teaching writing so that students can improve and master their writing ability. Alwasilah (2001:37) states that the responsibility for developing a specific or a professional writing skill is in school hands. While Heaton (1998:138) supports the importance of writing b...