Course Description: This is a course based upon disability education and employment rights. Students acquire skills to understand rights and obligations relating to accommodations as provided under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Students with disabilities develop self-advocacy skills related to their accommodation needs an...

In this paper we introduce and motivate the use of structural and quantitative perspectives on business process modelling and analysis. Structural perspectives are associated with certain model structuring styles. Quantitative perspectives are associated with certain process measures, in our case time-based measures. Furthermore, we relate these structural and quantitative perspectives. The int...

Background: Ethical standards of nursing profession emphasize that taking care of patients, showing respectful behavior, and preserving patients’ human dignity are important nursing priorities. Furthermore, since time immemorial, humanistic thinkers have always paid close attention to the issues of humanity and human dignity. Despite the emphasis of nursing texts on the importance of pres...

Introduction: The phenomenon of knowledge explosion has led teachers to feel the necessity of training students so that they become reflective thinkers. This issue is more important for nursing students who are responsible for providing care for patients.This study is a part of another study arming at exploration of Nursing Students’ views on reflection on practice. Methods. 20 senior nursing...

The success of an educational intervention is dependent on a multitude of factors. Even if we define success as limited as ‘increased competence right after the intervention’, we can safely assume a strong interplay between different aspects of the intervention (for example: time and number of items addressed) and the learning effect caused by that intervention. The problem gets even bigger whe...

introduction: patient education is influenced by cultural factors. this study aims to find out the role of culture in patient education. methods: a qualitative study was conducted on 23 iranian nurses. inclusion criteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. interviews were taped, transcribed and ana...

The objective of this paper is proposing a developed balanced scorecard approach to measure supply chain performance with the aim of creating more value in manufacturing and business operations. The most important metrics have been selected based on experts’ opinion acquired by in-depth interviews focused on creating more value for stakeholders. Using factor analysis method, a survey research h...

Adoption of innovative technologies has been investigated using different theoretical perspectives for many years. In the research field of Management, Abrahamson has suggested four perspectives to explain the adoption / rejection behavior. Similarly, in our field, Fichman has provided us with different adoption perspectives. A review and comparison of these adoption perspectives yields common ...