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This article aims to improve leadership and management simulation, experiences for nursing students in their final year to make a smooth transition into their professional life. Nurses who are potential leaders may lack necessary experiences and skills. Leadership and management simulation promotes effective support for nurses.26 students (in the final year of undergraduate program) selected the 'Developing Management Skills' course as elective. The course was 28 hours theoretical, 192 hours integrated with clinical practice and 32 hours simulation study.

Malnutrition is commonly seen in hospitals and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Objective was to validate the use of the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) in combination with different methods of nutritional assessment in the identification of malnutrition in hospitalized patients. Cross-sectional study. The diagnosis of malnutrition was obtained from the NRI, anthropometric variables and the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA).

This study aims to identify the communication pathways, to increase the competence of the employees so as to improve patient satisfaction and patient outcome, Is designed to carry out an improvement study. Hence, an inpatient floor was identified for each hospital and healthcare workers were observed before and after the theoretical and applied SBARR Communication method training without any notice by a same observer. It was observed that, the Response/Report step was used the most effectively. Most effective communication was carried out by nurses with undergraduate degrees.

Simple, accurate, reproducible, and inexpensive UV-Spectrophotometric methods were developed and validated for the estimation of lincomycin hydrochloride in pharmaceutical preparations. Licomycin hydrochloride was estimated at 196 nm in water. Beer’s law was obeyed in the range of (6–30), (0.-15) g/ml, (r = 0.999), (r = 0.999) in the direct and standard addition methods respectively. These methods were tested and validated for various parameters according to ICH guidelines.

The current study was conducted to assess maize seed system and estimate its purity and quality from formal and informal systems in Abaya and Dilla zones during 2015 main cropping season. The study was conducted by using 140 farmers and structured questionnaire to collect information from randomly sampled households of the selected four PAs in two Zones. 40 samples from farmers and 2 kg seed sample were collected from Abaya, and Dilla Agricultural Office each.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of the fertilizers on the efficiency of the soils and on the input of the maize. Some soils samples were collected in the 0-10 cm and on 10-20 cm depths on different sites where fertilizers were applied in the periurban area. The results showed some differences quite significant between the treatments which had been done.

Present paper is based on a study of family adjustment among working women of Raipur city of Chhattisgarh state (INDIA).Study is based on purposively selected 136 Nurses of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar hospital of Raipur city and 66 College professors of Raipur city. Data were collected through Interview-schedule and observation technique. It is tried to clarify through the study, what is the volume of family -adjustment in nurses and College professors. Findings of the study show that Nurses are facing more problem as compare to women professor in family adjustment.

Nanoparticles arevery minute in size i.e. 1-100 nm in size. Nanoparticle is a small object that behaves as a whole unit with respect to its transport and properties. These nanoparticles are associated with modern medical sciences of drugs and nanotechnology. In ancient times nanoparticle ar created by adding copper, silver salts,and oxides together with vinegar, ochre and clay on the surface of previously glazed pottry. Nanoparticles are prepared by several methods like attrition, pyrolisis and hydrothermal synthesis.

This study examined woodcarving and the socio-economic implications of wood carving on household livelihoods in Wamunyu Location, Machakos County. Woodcarving has been practiced in the study area, for over a century, and it has affected the livelihoods of the majority of the people in various ways. Woodcarving plays a vital role in generating income to the households.

This study reports important information on the preference and choice of a micro pension scheme from estate sector employers in Sri Lanka. The contingent valuation method (CV) was used to elicit participants’ willingness to pay for the hypothetical micro pension scheme. For product preferences, a conjoint analysis was conducted to study their relative importance and to discover the relationships between different attributes and the characteristics of the respondents.