Introduction The Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is the largest volume hospital in the UK Hip Fracture Database. Management of displaced intra-capsular hip fractures is evolving in light of NICE2 and BOA guidelines3, with more patients receiving total hip replacement (THR) over hemi-arthroplasty. With current rationing within the NHS, it is vital that principles of the 'Getting It Right Firs...

OBJECTIVE to translate, adapt and validate the contents of the Diabetes Medical Management Plan for the Brazilian context. This protocol was developed by the American Diabetes Association and guides the procedure of educators for the care of children and adolescents with diabetes in schools. METHOD this methodological study was conducted in four stages: initial translation, synthesis of initi...

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are areas identified as being important for the conservation of biodiversity due to the presence of threatened species or habitats, or particularly high levels of biodiversity. They are a useful concept for setting site conservation priorities, combining other categories such as biodiversity hotspots, Important Bird Areas and ‘ecoregions’. An analysis of the terres...

Catastrophic declines in biodiversity and habitat degradation have led scientists to debate both a sixth mass extinction the dawn of Anthropocene epoch, where humans are main driver environmental change (Chapin et al., 2000; Dirzo 2014). The loss keystone species, including seed dispersers, grazers apex predators, is particular concern as they cascading effects on ecosystems, disrupting process...

I t is a gender read ing of F lorence N ight ingale 's ma in work, "Notes on N u rs ing : what is and what isn 't" , a book which brings together the pr inc ip les and essential e lements of modern n u rs ing , professional ized i n England i n the second ha lf of the X IX centu ry and the way the profession was constituted i n Brazi l , as expl icited i n the work of Glete de Alcantara : "Mode...