We investigated nursing behavior on the Hawaiian breeding grounds for first year humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calves. We observed and video-documented underwater events with nursing behavior from five different whale groups. The observed nursing events include behaviors where a calf positions itself at a 30-45° angle to the midline of the mother's body, with its mouth touching her ma...

the theorem 12 in [a note on $p$-nilpotence and solvability of finite groups, j. algebra 321(2009) 1555--1560.] investigated the non-abelian simple groups in which some maximal subgroups have primes indice. in this note we show that this result can be applied to prove that the finite groups in which every non-nilpotent maximal subgroup has prime index aresolvable.

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background: considering the school nursing standards, which is the most important and vital element of the school health team, can be a fundamental step toward solving the current and future problems of the school and society health. the present research was done with the goal of determining the current situation of the standard of the school health nursing process in elementary schools of kerm...

conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

background in recent decades, health care systems has greatly influenced by the technology development. the technology is helpful to enhance quality of care, reduce costs and improve patient care if appropriate training be applied for technology users. technology user’s training has been studied in some quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the challenges which nurses’...

Abstract Background In-hospital fall incidents are common and sensitive to nursing care. It is therefore important have easy access valid patient data evaluate follow-up The aim of the study was validate documentation, using a specific term in registered nurses´ (RNs´) discharge note, regarding inpatient falls according outcome digitalized extraction tool note itself. Methods At teaching hospit...

The nursing home is a unique institution in American society that commonly elicits public and professional responses of dread and resignation, as well as brave efforts at reform. Nursing homes within the US long-term health care system have undergone major changes since I first began to study them in the early 1980s. As guest editor for two themed issues on long-term care in RI for the Rhode Is...