OBJECTIVE To explore registered nurses' experience of medication management in municipal care of the elderly in Sweden, with a focus on their pharmacovigilant activities. DESIGN A qualitative approach using focus-group discussions was chosen in order to provide in-depth information. Data were analysed by qualitative content analysis. SETTING Five focus groups in five different long-term car...

BACKGROUND The nursing shortage requires new graduate registered nurses (RNs) to work at the bedside, often leading to a shortened orientation period and increased stress. In the Married State Preceptorship Model (MSPM), the preceptor and the preceptee work together as the new graduate RN transitions to the bedside while maintaining safety and quality. This study explored first-year turnover ra...

Residue Number Systems (RNS) allow the distribution of large dynamic range computations over small modular rings, which allows the speed up of computations. This feature is well known, and already used in both DSP and cryptography. Most of implementations use RNS bases of three elements to reduce the complexity of conversions, but if can increase the number of RNS modular computational channels...

Residue Number System (RNS) has computational advantages for large integer arithmetic. It provides the benefits of parallel, carry-free, and high-speed arithmetic in addition, subtraction, and multiplication. However, overflow detection, sign detection, magnitude detection, and division are time-consuming operations in RNS. The most interesting one of the above operations is division, and many ...

WHAT DID WE DO?: This study uses an existing data source to (a) describe the population and geographic distribution of registered nurses (RNs) working in primary healthcare (PHC) in British Columbia, (b) compare this workforce to PHC physicians and (c) assess the distribution of PHC-RNs relative to population health status. WHAT DID WE LEARN?: Of the 27,570 practising RNs in British Columbia in...

residue number system (rns) is a carry-free and non-weighed integer system. in this paper an improved three-moduli set  in reverse converter based on crt algorithm is proposed. crt algorithm can perform a better delay and hardware implementation in modules via other algorithms. this moduli is based on p that covers a wide range on modules and supports the whole range of its modules in dynamic r...

The expression of CS1 pili by enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli is regulated at the transcriptional level and requires the virulence regulator Rns, a member of the AraC family of regulatory proteins. Rns binds at two separate sites upstream of Pcoo (the promoter of CS1 pilin genes), which were identified in vitro with an MBP::Rns fusion protein in gel mobility and DNase I footprinting...

For decades, nurses (RNs) have identified barriers to providing the optimal pain management that children deserve; yet no studies were found in the literature that assessed these barriers over time or across multiple pediatric hospitals. The purpose of this study was to reassess barriers that pediatric RNs perceive, and how they describe optimal pain management, 3 years after our initial assess...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Responses to repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) in patients with muscle-specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK) antibody (Ab)-positive myasthenia gravis (MG) vary depending on the muscles tested. We analyzed the RNS responses of limb and facial muscles in MuSK-Ab-positive and acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-Ab-negative MG (MuSK MG) and MuSK-Ab-negative and AChR-Ab-negative [double-...

BACKGROUND Many insulin infusion protocols are available for clinical use. We developed a Web-based, online intravenous insulin infusion calculator (IVIIC) for use in our intensive care and medical-surgical units. METHODS In September 2006, we implemented a quality improvement project: an online survey to evaluate the acceptance of this protocol by the nursing staff. Of the 103 registered nur...