Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ISSN 0718–1876 Electronic Version VOL 4 / ISSUE 2 / AUGUST 2009 / 20-30 © 2009 Universidad de Talca - Chile This paper is available online at www.jtaer.com DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762009000200003 Using Visual Analytics to Improve Hospital Scheduling and Patient Flow Janna Anneke Fitzgerald1 and Ann Dadich2 University of Western Sydney‚ Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies 1 a.fitzgerald@uws.edu.au‚2 a.dadich@uws.edu.au Received
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The Importance of Succession Planning Nurse managers are a vital component of any healthcare setting. They are responsible for supervising a nursing unit in a hospital or clinic. That includes direction of nursing staff‚ oversight of patient care and some management or budget decisions. In other words‚ instead of spending their day screening patients and checking vitals‚ they are establishing work schedules‚ coordinating meetings and making personnel decisions Health care organizations are slowly
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Virtue ethics is relative There are different opinions and views within virtue ethics as to which virtues to follow and‚ more importantly‚ what makes a "Virtuous person" the contrast in opinions demonstrates the relativism of Virtue ethics. The doctrine of the mean does not work in practice It seems perfect in theory but as the statement claims‚ it is difficult to work in practise. The main area of failure is when/ how we know when we’ve gone to either extreme? This judgement amongst subjective
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Project Management Research Paper BUS 611 Project Planning and Management May 26‚ 2014 Project Management Research Paper The common denominator of all successful projects is the capacity and quality of its project managing mechanism. Project management is the discipline that integrates various processes towards the achievement of specific objectives and deliverables. This discipline is founded under the premise that all projects are unique‚ and no two are ever the same.
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Defining Crime Crime Is usually defined as whether the law has been broken which may lead to a punishment by the legal system however crime is hard to define because if the law or penal system did not exist than neither would the labelling of a behaviour or act as criminal or not. The legal system defines acts as criminal if a person has broken the law either by “actus reus” (guilty act)‚ when a criminal act has occurred or “mens rea” (guilty mind) when a person had the intention of carrying
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RELATIVES IN ARISTOTLE ’S CATEGORIES : RESEARCH FOR A DISCRIMINATING CRITERION In the treatise of Categories‚ after enumerating the ten categories in Chapter IV‚ Aristotle undertakes to examine each of the principle four in a separate Chapter. On the first reading‚ it seems difficult to understand Aristotle ’s goal in this detailed study. The unity of the inquiry is not really evident: Aristotle tests certain criteria (contrariety‚ a more and a less‚ simultaneity) for each category. Nevertheless
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The roots‚ of which date‚ back to classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The defining difference between the two schools of thought has become knows as “nature v. nurture.” Plato advocated nature‚ known as nativist view‚ which seeks to define one’s actions based on the assumption that we are endowed with certain‚ intrinsic modes of behavior. Alternately‚ Aristotle advocated nurture‚ known as the empiricist view‚ which asserts one’s behavior is dictated by what one is taught and experiences
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to be much more difficult. Gary Kessler states that a good definition should be "useful for the purposes at hand‚ as precise as possible without being to narrow in scope‚ and as free from bias as possible" (14). Keeping this in mind‚ I have come to define religion as system of beliefs that seeks to find order within the universe‚ purpose in life‚ and the meaning behind death. Throughout history people have sought out answers for the fundamental questions of human existence: Why are we here? Does everything
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Individual: Project Controls CMGT410 Chanda Sanders 2/23/15 Memorandum To: ABC Physicians Corp CC: Administrator‚ Office Managers/Assistants From: Date: 5/27/15 Re: EPIC EMR Project Controls Methodology to EMR Conversion Training was a success and we feel comfortable the users received an appropriate amount of training. OBJECTIVE-Successfully convert ABC Physician office(s) from medical paper charts to new electronic medical software called EPIC. Trainers made certain the staff received the
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Define Culture “A person without the knowledge of their past history‚ origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”- Marcus Garvey. This says that a person is defined by his or her culture by the way he/she acts‚ thinks‚ and speaks. A person is defined by his or her culture by the way he or she thinks. A person see’s the world differently so the way they think and act would be distinct. They would think differently because of the different backgrounds that they have. In the story “Imagine”
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