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In this paper we establish the complete moment convergence for sequences of coordinatewise negatively associated random vectors in Hilbert spaces. The result extends the complete moment convergence in (Ko in J. Inequal. Appl. 2016:131, 2016) to Hilbert spaces as well as generalizes the Baum-Katz type theorem in (Huan et al. in Acta Math. Hung. 144(1):132-149, 2014) to the complete moment conver...

Since about the midway point of the First Ministers' 10-year plan to strengthen healthcare, its impending expiry in 2014 has prompted the leading health professions to consider "what comes next," how to influence that decision and then, how best to position their messages in the politics of whatever might emerge. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), which has a century-long history of engagem...

In our last column (Villeneuve and Mildon 2013), we shared the topics of 11 project charters developed by the Canadian Nurses Association to respond to the nine-point Call to Action of the National Expert Commission (NEC 2012). The lead recommendation of the NEC was to move Canada’s ranking on five key population health and health system performance indicators into the “top five” internationall...

since the late 1990s, the nursing shortage has occupied the attention of the profession, policy makers and employers (CNA 2009; WHO 2006). In this Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, we have an opportunity to revisit the problem of nursing human resources from the standpoint of labour mobility. I say “revisit” because the problem has been sleeping in Canada, as many dec...

BACKGROUND Advanced practitioners including nurse practitioners and physician assistants are contributing to care for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit through their participation on the multidisciplinary team and in collaborative physician practice roles. However, the impact of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the intensive care unit setting is not well known. ...

AIM This paper is a report of the development and testing of the Self-Efficacy for Preventing Falls Nurse and Assistant scales. BACKGROUND Patient falls and fall-related injuries are traumatic ordeals for patients, family members and providers, and carry a toll for hospitals. Self-efficacy is an important factor in determining actions persons take and levels of performance they achieve. Perfo...

Trends in malpractice awards and adverse actions (e.g., revocation of provider license) following an act or omission constituting medical error or negligence were examined. The National Practitioner Data Bank was used to compare rates of malpractice reports and adverse actions for physicians, physician assistants (PAs), and nurse practitioners (NPs). During 2005 through 2014, there ranged from ...

already reduced by disease. Prognosis and treatment are best assessed in the type of the cardiac response to this strain. Pregnancy being a temporary strain, by rest and treatment the patient may be able to discount to some extent further inroads on the heart reserve, whilst recovery may be almost, if not entirely, complete after the incident of pregnancy. Repeated pregnancies, particularly if ...