Elsevier and Prophecy Healthcare collaborate to enhance staff development offerings for healthcare organisations - March 26, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its collaboration with Prophecy Healthcare. Prophecy Healthcare provides the premier nurse assessment suite that evaluates not only the knowledge of nurse applicants, but also their attitudes, personalities, interpersonal competence, and decision making processes. Under the deal, Elsevier will distribute Prophecy's… Read More
Elsevier and ExitCare announce collaboration - March 23, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an expanded collaboration with ExitCare, LLC, an enterprise-wide solution for patient education. ExitCare’s content already provides Elsevier customers with access to an expansive library of patient education information available in multiple languages, including the recent addition of ExitCare’s patient… Read More
Pearson Higher Education launches Readypoint Nursing to prepare Nurses for practice - March 23, 2012
Pearson Higher Education has announced a major investment in nursing education with the launch of Readypoint Nursing. Readypoint Nursing is the first programme to fully integrate learning with assessment to help ensure that students are prepared not only for professional licensure but to launch their careers… Read More
Social networking is biggest web activity in Latin America, says comScore report - March 22, 2012
comScore, Inc., a US-based provider of digital marketing information, has released its annual report on Latin America’s key digital trends of the past year and what they mean for the year ahead. The ‘2012 Latin America Digital Future in Focus’ examines how the prevailing trends in… Read More
NISO announces 2012 Educational Programmes - March 22, 2012
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that it will offer 14 webinars, three forums, 10 teleconferences, and a series of four joint webinars with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) in 2012. Webinar programme topics cover a wide variety of standards and technology areas… Read More
IEEE announces new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards projects - March 21, 2012
Technical professional association IEEE, US, has announced dozens of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development projects. LAN/MAN protection, high-voltage switching and gas-insulated substations are among the technology areas addressed in newly published IEEE standards. Detailed information on the standards and projects recently approved by the… Read More