Negative and Positive. To calculate a problem that begins with a negative number and is being divided by a positive number, the answer will also always be negative. For example, -10 divided by 5 also equals -2. Multiply the quotient by the divisor to check your answer: -2 x 5 = -10.
What Is Nursing Excellence? By Margaret Ort, RN, MSN, BSN, CEN. On the eve of Nurses Day, I thought it incumbent upon all of us as professional nurses to revisit for a moment the idea of excellence in nursing practice. I did some research and discovered that nursing excellence is defined in so many different ways. Depending on the literature you read, nursing excellence can be related to mentorship, to membership in a professional organization, to collaborative practice, and so on.
The beauty of accreditation is in understanding that the criteria by which a nursing school is measured during accreditation must be in accordance with a hard and fast set of criteria based on a set of quite rigorous standards. Each accrediting agency has its own standards, but they reflect similar factors.