During Drosophila oogenesis nurse cells become polyploid, enabling them to provide the developing oocyte with vast amounts of maternal messages and products. The nurse cells then die by apoptosis. In nurse cells, as in many other polyploid or polytene tissues, replication is differentially controlled and the heterochromatin is underreplicated. The nurse cell chromosomes also undergo development...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether nurse staffing in California hospitals, where state-mandated minimum nurse-to-patient ratios are in effect, differs from two states without legislation and whether those differences are associated with nurse and patient outcomes. DATA SOURCES Primary survey data from 22,336 hospital staff nurses in California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in 2006 and state hosp...

In light of current concerns over nursing shortages and productivity, voluntary turnover among hospital nurses in the United States has assumed renewed importance as a managerial issue. This study examines the thesis that the social organization of work in hospitals is an important determinant of the voluntary turnover rate among registered nurses. This perspective differs from previous work in...

Using the Johansen cointegration technique, we find empirical evidence of long run comovements between five national stock market indexes and measures of aggregate real activity including the real oil price, real consumption, real money, and real output. Real returns on these indexes are typically related to transitory deviations from the long run relationship and to changes in the macroeconomi...

background and objectives: effective nurse-physician communication is essential for provision of high quality clinical care. research into nurse-physician communication is a new field in iran, and the importance of the issue calls for further investigation. in response to this necessity, this study aimed to assess nurses’ perception of nurse-physician communication in teaching hospitals affilia...

background: nurse educators have an important role in clinical learning that can reduce nursing students' stress. however,   a few studies have been conducted on the relationship between nursing students’ tension and clinical educators 'role in such situations, in iran. the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between nursing students’ stress and perception of nurse educ...

background : clinical work is important part of nursing teaching. nursing education to their responsibilities for teaching and researching are also responsible for integrating the knowledge and practice and offering service to community. complexity of these responsibilities often cause a great deal of psychological stress.   objective : to determine level of stress perceived by nurse educators ...

“In the next room you could hear the buzzers sounding. After about 20 minutes you could hear the men shouting for the nurse, “Nurse, nurse”, and it just went on and on. And then very often it would be two people calling at the same time and then you would hear them crying, like shouting “Nurse” louder, and then you would hear them just crying, just sobbing, they would just sob and you just pres...