The reduction in facility acquired pressure ulcers has become a key quality indicator for acute care facilities. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2006 patient safety goal #14 is to prevent health care associated pressure ulcers;1 while the

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The American Nurses AssociationCode of Ethics for Nurses calls for the nurse to practice with compassion and re-spect for every individual. What are the ethics and challenges of practicing professional nursing with expertise and educating a new generation of nurses while incorporating

Starting in 2006, the American Nurses Association (ANA) embarked on a new effort to significantly engage registered nurses and the nursing profession in ANA’s policy development process on a timely policy issue impacting the profession. ANA’s policy conference, Nursing Care in Life, Death

This is the manuscript that was published, with only minor copy-editing alterations, as: Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review. 108, 814-834 Copyright 2001, American Psychological Association To obtain a

, assessment of modality, and the inference on the numbers of components. Also, convergence results are established for a general class of normal mixture models. American Statistical Association