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Decision Critical to Provide Technology to Largest U.S. Provider of Nursing Continuing Education.


AUSTIN, Texas -- Company Reports Renewal Rates of Close to 95 Per Cent CENT, money. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains. Act of January 18th, 1837, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story',s L. U. S. 2524.  and Higher Overall CEU CEU Continuing Education Unit
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Austin-based Decision Critical, Inc. ("Decision Critical") has been chosen to provide its technology to the largest U.S. provider of continuing education continuing education: see adult education.
continuing education
 or adult education

Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904).
 for nurses.

Decision Critical (www.decisioncritical.com), a provider of Web-based staffing, recruiting, retention and learning programs for health care organizations, has signed the agreement with Nursing Spectrum to provide its Education Data Repository See repository.  (EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) An acronym occasionally used to reflect an advancement in transmission or transfer speed. For example, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR provides a dramatic increase in speed over the previous version. See Bluetooth. ) as the technology platform for that company's online continuing education programs. The specific terms of the multi-year agreement were undisclosed at the time of this release.

Nursing Spectrum, the largest provider of nursing continuing education in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , is a part of Gannett multi-media which owns 22 television stations, and over a one hundred daily newspapers, including USA Today USA Today

National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s.
, with a combined circulation of 7.6 million.

"Online learning is one of our fastest growing new technologies in our industry, making our relationship with Decision Critical more important to us than ever before. Our clients love the simple, intuitive format of our learning system, and we love the incredible customer support of the Decision Critical technical team," says Steve Hauber, Nursing Spectrum's Executive Vice President.

This partnership dates back to September 2002, when Decision Critical first partnered with NurseWeek Publishing to provide CE Gift Cards. Today's announcement comes as a result of Nursing Spectrum's acquisition of NurseWeek earlier this year securing Nursing Spectrum's position as the market leader in nursing continuing education. To-date, this partnership has proven extremely successful with renewal rates of 95 per cent.

"We believe that Nursing Spectrum's acquisition was due in part to NurseWeek's success with on-line learning and Decision Critical is delighted to have contributed to that success," says Decision Critical's founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Kenneth W. Dion. "We take this renewal as the greatest compliment to our technical team who deliver superior customer service. We thank Nursing Spectrum for their business and confidence."

About Decision Critical, Inc. (Decision Critical)

Decision Critical (www.decisioncritical.com) specializes in providing a web-enabled learning management system to healthcare organizations across the United States. Customers implement Decision Critical's unique Education Data Repository (EDR) to deliver, track and maintain up-to-date records on the continuing education of their healthcare professionals.
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