Background: Health care is a labour-intensive industry and nursing represents a high proportion of these labour costs. In response to fiscal constraints, payers have attempted to constrain costs; in return, provider organizations have sought to reduce their labour costs by shifting from...

For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual scale, many of the traditional social, political, and cultural habits of mind and ways of being that evolved under the regime of the clock are changing...