This text provides a comprehensive framework for providing culturally competent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities and institutions. We begin with a synthesis of transcultural theories, models, and research studies. It is our intent to provide transcultural knowledge that can be useful in nursing care. The text actually began in 1989 as a collegial effort by novice trans...

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) has worked diligently to improve the care of patients with cancer and their families. A recent project that demonstrates this commitment toquality care is the development of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes resources. ONS has teamed researchers, advanced practice nurses, and staff nurses to develop Putting Evidence Into Practice resources that provide guidan...

As a Center Director for one of the NIOSH Agricultural Centers as well as a Program Director for an accredited Occupational Medicine Residency Program, I am invited from time to time to review other programs. I consider it a real privilege when this level of trust is placed in me to judge the quality of a residency training program. Teaching the specialty of Occupational Medicine to physicians ...

The current research aimed to investigate the link between the quality of working life and the systematic commitment of nurses in the teaching hospitals in Tabriz. The methodology used was functional regarding the purpose and the proportional allocation as far as the stratified sampling method was concerned. The study population consisted of all the nurses in Tabriz. The instrument used in this...

In some of my reading and in conversations and meetings, I have noticed two phenomena: on the one hand, an explicit commitment to teaching systems thinking to our students and residents, and on the other, situations in medical education where systems thinking would have made a substantial contribution. The collection of articles in this issue of the CMEJ similarly demonstrate systems thinking o...

Professional competence requires a commitment to lifelong learning, self-assessment, and excellence. Complex skills such as these require flexible and comprehensive teaching and assessment measures. We describe a combination of working and performance portfolios that both foster and evaluate the development of professional competence. We explain the conceptual and practical underpinnings that m...

In the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, teacher transformed classroom education, guaranteeing access to transformational cognitive learning, migrating from teaching confinement teaching, called emergency remote teaching. Adapting has generated hard collaborative work with open education resources, implemented by teacher. Objective. To evaluate in medical students during contingency period. Results. ...

We show that all proposed quantum bit commitment schemes are insecure because the sender can always cheat successfully by using an EPR-type of attack and delaying her measurement until she opens her commitment.

A simple un-entanglement based quantum bit commitment scheme is presented. Although commitment is unconditionally secure but concealment is not.

BACKGROUND Several studies are available on organizational commitment of employees in different organizations. However, the organizational commitment and job involvement of the employees in the prehospital emergency medical system (PEMS) of Iran have largely been ignored. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the organizational commitment and job involvement of the employees of PEMS and ...