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There continues to be a shortage of nurses in the U.S. and worldwide, and in some areas there is a shortage of physicians. One particular field of healthcare could provide support where there are shortages and that is the advanced practice RN, a nurse that has gone for a Master's degree in order to get the skills needed to step in and perform healthcare functions in lieu of doctors. Moreover, the advance practice nurse is trained as a leader, a manager, a researcher, and a talent that can solve medical problems.

The way training is delivered in a corporate environment has a tremendous effect on results. This study investigates the role of culture in the learning styles of adult French and American students enrolled in online training programs at an international university. Using Kolb's learning style inventory, the learning style preferences of respondents in both cultural groups will be classified as divergers, convergers, accommodators, and assimilators, reflecting their general tendencies toward learning environments as conceptualized by Kolb (1985). The assumption is that Americans prefer to learn from action-oriented methods and are more comfortable learning from activities that are not job related, such as role plays and games, than do their French counterparts who prefer to learn from job-related activities based on solid research. These preferences will then be examined in light of learners' responses to Hofstede's Culture in the Workplace questionnaire, which examines cultural tendencies towards collectivism/individualism, power orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long/short term orientation (Hofstede, 1980). The sample population will be composed of 150 American and 150 French trainees. They are all employed in multinationals and hold jobs that require them to attend corporate training and travel around the world. Conclusions will be drawn which compare French and American cultural differences in learning style preferences and the extent to which these preferences are mediated by cultural orientations as conceptualized by Hofstede (1980). Results will assist multinational corporations in understanding the role of culture in their training scenarios as they seek to provide more effective training for their increasingly cultural diverse learner populations which can provide some proof that they will be successful in using the new skills.

Reliance on organizational learning as a means to continually improve change management processes in a company has been defined in this paper. There are specific examples of how companies can use change management techniques, also showing how organizational learning serves as a catalyst of successful change management as well.

Society today is virtually borderless, thanks to the advent of technology. The internet and other options have made it possible to interact instantly with people from all over the world. Because of that, there are changes that have taken place in people's lives. One of those changes is in the way they eat. Where does their food come from? How did it get to their store and their table? This are the issues addressed here.

Educational experiences determine the views, which people develop regarding education. When teachers do not take the learning process as a responsibility to be passionate about, the result of educational results becomes so negative. Teachers must be keen on their actions so they may be jeopardize their ethical facilitation of the learning process. This is because students depend on the guidance of teachers during their studies. However, educational theories guide teachers on the best means of facilitating the learning process in an accommodative way. This means that there is a future for pushing education forward and making the life of students bearable in the classroom.

At the core of becoming an activist educator

The purpose of this paper is to apply a learning theory to an actual educational case study and scenario. The situation must be seen from the point-of-view of the nursing student scenario.

Promoting Social Change Through Women's Sports Leadership

One of the most important learning moments in this chapter came from reading the section on "The Stages in Decision Making." Learning about the decision-making process was valuable, (and a bit unnerving), but when the…

Thomas Aquinas believed that everything that was truthful came from God. Divine help was required for true knowledge, but that humans are capable of knowing many things that do not require God's help.