Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing: Your Supportive Partner in Successful Nursing Accreditation
Abstract In many nursing programs, there are a lot of new faculty members and new nurse administrators. These nurse educators are potentially preparing for their first accreditation visit since attaining their positions. Nurse educators may have questions about how to begin preparing for an initial accreditation visit or a reaccreditation visit. This article will provide information about the various resources available from the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing to assist in the accreditation process and to be a supportive partner in nursing accreditation.
In this paper we study the performance of IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) priority schemes under finite load and error-prone channel. We introduce a multi-dimensional Markov Chain model that includes all the mandatory differentiation mechanisms of the standard: QoS parameters, CWMIN, CWMAX arbitration inter-frame space (AIFS), and the virtual collision handler. The model faithfully represents the functionality of the EDCA access mechanisms, including lesser known details of the standard such as the management of the backoff counter which is technically different from the one used in the legacy DCF. We study the priority schemes under both finite load and saturation conditions. Our analysis also takes into consideration channel conditions.