Cost issues and questions related to graduate nurse anesthesia education are raised from the perspective of a dean of a college of nursing. Suggestions relative to these issues are made, and various funding mechanisms that exist in institutions of higher learning are briefly discussed in relation to their cost and benefits.

The cost of knowledge characteristic function was introduced by Card, Pirolli and Mackinlay in 1994 as a design tool. This paper explores the value of deriving the function from system specifications. Automating the process enables technical designers (programmers) to see usability issues.