EduDecisions Dictionary

business administration: The performance or management of business operations and the associated decision making and implementation necessary for successful operation.

certified nursing assistant (CNA): A nurse who assists individuals with healthcare needs and activities of daily living (ADL). CNAs also provide bedside care, under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, Enrolled Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.

clinical nurse specialist (CNS): An advanced practice nurse who has earned master’s or doctorate degree from a program that prepares CNS.

communication studies: An academic discipline that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time.

community counseling: A generic term for any kind of professional counseling that occurs outside a hospital setting.

corrections: Society's system of handling persons convicted criminal offenses.

criminology: The social-scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon.

curriculum: A set of courses and their content offered at a school or university.

distance learning: A field of education that focuses on the pedagogy, andragogy, technology and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students not physically "on site."

e-business: Any business process that relies on an automated information system, generally done with Web-based technologies.