buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Known as next-generation e-commerce‚ m-commerce enables users to access the Internet without needing to find a place to plug in. The emerging technology behind m-commerce‚ which is based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)‚ has made far greater strides in Europe‚ where mobile devices equipped with Web-ready micro-browsers are much more common than in
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Electronic Nursing Documentation as a Strategy to Improve Quality of Patient Care Nursing documentation is of utmost importance to nurses in the delivery of quality patient care. Prior to the advent of electronic nursing documentation‚ nurses used the paper based system to document patients’ information. Electronic nursing documentation brought with it some benefits ranging from easy retrieval of patients’ information using the copy-and-paste feature (which allows nurses to copy previously documented
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INPUT DEVICES 1. Where does the name QWERTY keyboard come from ? The name QWERTY comes from the first six letters on the top row of the alphabet keys. 2. Why do think the QWERTY keyboard is the most popular method of data entry? The QWERTY keyboard is the most popular method of entering data because an easy way of usage and when you get used to it you start typing faster 3. Who might make use of a concept keyboard? A concept keyboard might be used by a fast food restaurant
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Students In the world there are many issues that people in the world do not agree about. People can protest and express their feelings about the issue in a peacefully manner or in an angrily one. Does peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact the community and society as a whole? Where I live in Las Cruces‚ New Mexico‚ I see people protesting on the issue of abortion. Daily‚ I see them with signs protesting that abortion is wrong. I believe that by these people peacefully protesting
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campaign for the presidency was the health care reform of the U.S. health care system. It was not until a month later into his presidency in the year 2009 that President Obama addressed the issue of the high rising cost of health care and the millions of people in the United States being uninsured. It was not until March 23th 2010‚ after much debate that President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ the U.S. health care reform legislation. The primary objective
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Patient Safety at Grand River Hospital & St. Mary’s General Hospital Most patients would like to think that safety is a major priority at the hospital they are visiting. They would like to believe that the hospital actively engages in practices that should nearly diminish any possibility for an accident or mistake to occur. However‚ the premise of patient safety is relatively new. Medical errors remain a sensitive topic with patients‚ physicians‚ and hospital administrators. Physicians and
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By reading the front and back cover of the book‚ it could be concluded that No Impact Man would be a fairly boring and drug out book. To most‚ including myself‚ a novel about a random‚ guilty liberal who decided he should stop making an impact on the environment while dragging his family down into this endeavor sounds very unappealing. Despite this‚ I did have high hopes that it would turn out to be a good novel; the environment is indeed in danger and is in need of help‚ the project sounded unique
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as Electronics and Communication as Undergraduate course at SRM University‚ Chennai which is a top University in Chennai. I have learned as much as I can in this stream for these 4 years. Now the time has come to focus on my strengths. Technology has improved in such a way that we can send a huge amount of data through computers around the world. You can surprisingly do a lot of good from sitting behind a computer. When I first joined at SRM University‚ there was no communication
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1. Introduction to Network Devices All networks are made up of basic hardware building blocks to interconnect network nodes‚ such as Network Interface Cards (NICs)‚ Bridges‚ Hubs‚ Switches‚ and Routers. In addition‚ some method of connecting these building blocks is required‚ usually in the form of galvanic cable (most commonly Category 5 cable). Less common are microwave links (as in IEEE 802.12) or optical cable ("optical fiber"). An ethernet card may also be required. Network interface cards
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Patient advocacy requires nurses to support and protect their patients. Nurses often find themselves in ethically questionable situations that conflict with their personal and professional morals. Sometimes‚ speaking out for the patient requires them to demonstrate moral courage—for instance‚ in the face of conflicting loyalties‚ in highly charged conflict situations‚ or when the patient’s rights are being violated. This article provides an overview of moral courage‚ defines important terms‚ examines
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