The nursing shortage continues as faculty shortage grows

To combat the nursing shortage, efforts to promote nursing as a career have been successful. However, academic nursing institutions are not adequately prepared for this new influx of applicants. The lack of faculty to educate the growing demand for baccalaureate-prepared RNs directly impacts the nursing shortage. The nursing shortage thus directly impacts safe patient care. The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years left to teach, expected increases in faculty retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finally, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fill the needed nurse educator positions It is in the best interest of the nursing profession to do what it does best by incorporating the nursing process to solve the faculty shortage and secure its future in order to protect the lives of patients.     

澄清在企业做强与做大上的几个误区

20世纪80年代规模经济理论传入我国之时，适逢中国正处于短缺经济阶段，市场形势是需求过旺而供给不足，强大的需求把中国经济推上了发展的快车道，全国各地基建、技改投入猛增。当时的提法是固定资产投资不仅要上水平，更要上规模。规模经济理论在中国找到了知音，可谓生逢其时。不知从何时起，又冒出个“企业做大”的词汇，企业做大不算是经济名词，但其涵义与规模经济雷同，细细品味，原来是规模经济的代名词，即中式     

使比较研究可信

:人们在进行宏观社会现象的研究时,方法上有定性与定量之分。定量分析呈现U字形分布,对极少量的N进行研究有案例分析导向,对极大量的N进行研究不利于认识的深化,因此有必要寻找案例研究与变量导向研究之间的中间路线。组合式研究就有很多独特的优点。     

避免IT黑洞，使ERP成为创造利润的工具

一、ERP的实施要与BPR设计相结合 麻省理工学院(Massachvsetts Institute of Technology,简称MIT)自1984年到1991年的一项"90年代的管理"的研究报告,调查研究了IT应用对各类机构的影响.研究发现:应用没有成效的企业大多是用计算机信息系统模拟手工业务处理流程,而成功的企业在应用IT的方式上则考虑到计算机化管理的特点,并对手工业务处理流程做了很多改变.该项研究将企业应用IT的水平划分为以下5个级别.     

随着经济的缓慢复苏,美国建筑市场开始出现转变

随着办公楼建筑市场的发展逐步好转,住房和公用事业市场的艰难局面也开始走向缓和     

Make Trade Not War?

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically the relationship between military conflicts and trade. We show that the conventional wisdom that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is economically beneficial, military conflicts reduce trade, and leaders are rational. When war can occur because of the presence of asymmetric information, the probability of escalation is lower for countries that trade more bilaterally because of the opportunity cost associated with the loss of trade gains. However, countries more open to global trade have a higher probability of war because multilateral trade openness decreases bilateral dependence to any given country and the cost of a bilateral conflict. We test our predictions on a large data set of military conflicts on the 1950–2000 period. Using different strategies to solve the endogeneity issues, including instrumental variables, we find robust evidence for the contrasting effects of bilateral and multilateral trade openness. For proximate countries, we find that trade has had a surprisingly large effect on their probability of military conflict.