PURPOSE This is an exploratory study of nursing home preparedness in South Carolina intended to: (1) examine nursing home administrators' perceptions of disaster preparedness in their facility in the absence of an immediate emergency or disaster, and changes in their views about preparedness following a large disaster; (2) study whether administrators' knowledge of shortcomings in preparedness ...

the main of this paper is designing a model for holographic organization with identify the factors that effects on it. designing the holographic organization regarding components as dynamic capacity building, holistic environment, efficient human capital, increased self-managing, and smart structure aims at crystallizing the entire quality in each single part with the intention. this article is...

Tellington touch (ttouch) is an emerging natural healing modality used by nurses and other health care providers to communicate caring and connection to clients. This simple-to-learn and easy-to-implement form of mindful, gentle physical touch is said to help in diverse areas such as chronic pain management, labor discomfort, and postinjury pain and edema. Despite 15 years of anecdotal evidence...

Aim: to identify, analyze and classify the metodologies used by preceptors in the teaching-learning process of multiprofissional residents. Method: a descriptive-exploratory study that will involve the preceptors of multirpofissional residency in health of a maternity school of Natal, RN, Brazil. The data collection will be carried out from September 2016 to February 2017, through a technique o...

1 Univariate Statistics and Histograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1 Measures of Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Measures of Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Measures of Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2 Comparing the Distributions of Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1 Comparing Empirical a...