The Americans With Disabilities Act: explaining legislative intent through experiential learning.

Imparting the requirements of healthcare workforce legislation to students is only one aspect of preparing undergraduate healthcare management students to be effective managers. On first review, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) appears quite straightforward. The Act applies to any employer with 15 or more employees and covers a full range of employment practices.

A study of personal digital assistants to enhance undergraduate clinical nursing education.

This study reports on personal digital assistants (PDAs) as a means to prepare nurse professionals who value and seek current information. An interdisciplinary team of nursing and library faculty, information technology and bookstore staff, students, and educational consultants developed this project. A pre-post and comparative group design of second-degree students in the accelerated and traditional baccalaureate nursing degree (BSN) options was used to examine students' information-seeking behaviors, and the effectiveness and cost of innovation strategies associated with incorporation of PDAs into students' clinical practice.