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Objective To evaluate Chinese nurses' perception of the nursing work environment and to compare the differences among the eight economic regions in mainland China.Thus,policy-makers and nursing managers can optimize and coordinate resources based on the results of this study.Methods Chinese version of Nursing Working Environment Scale was used in the study.A total of 19,000 nurses from 31 provinces and municipalities in mainland China were investigated.Descriptive analysis,cluster analysis and nuclear density estimation were conducted.Results The average score of the nursing work environment was 4.1 points,which means nurses were somewhat satisfied with their work conditions.Specifically,nurses were most dissatisfied with the basic safeguard dimension (3.4 points),followed by sufficient manpower (3.9 points),career development (4.0) and leadership and management(4.0)dimensions.In addition,the eight economic regions could be divided into three categories(P＜0.01)according to the differences of the nursing work environment.The first category included the northeast,northern coastal and middle reaches of the Yellow River economic zone;the second category included eastern coastal economic zone;and the third category included the southern coast,the middle reaches of the Yangtze River,southwest and northwest economic zone.Conclusion The development of the nursing work environment in the vast majority of mainland China is unbalanced and the regional differences are obvious.
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BACKGROUND:Because of poor biocompatibility, conventional intraocular lenses (IOLs) used to improve visual acuity can result in a higher incidence of inflammatory foreign body reactions. OBJECTIVE:To study the biocompatibility and therapeutic effects of hirudin peptide-modified acrylic IOL on eye diseases. METHODS:By immersion coating method, we prepared a polymethylmethacrylate IOL by the modification with hirudin polypeptides and observed its biocompatibility through the cytological observation. In this study, six New Zealand white rabbits were equivalently randomized into conventional and hirudin peptide grouppolypeptide hirudin group. Rabbits in the conventional group were given conventional lens implantation; while those in the hirudin peptide group underwent hirudin peptide-modified polymethylmethacrylate IOL. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Three days after implantation of hirudin peptide-modified polymethylmethacrylate IOL, cels proliferated and spread wel on the acrylic IOL, but on the cel membrane, there were a few cels most of which were gathered sphericaly with no spreading. In the hirudin peptide group, some cels attached to the border zone migrated to the IOL surface, but did not impede the central visual field; in the conventional group, the IOL surface was stil covered by fibrotic cel membrane.Comparedwith the conventional group, the score in the SchirmerItest was increased but the breakup time of tear film decreased in the hirudin peptide group. To conclude, the polymethylmethacrylate IOL modified by hirudin peptides has good physicochemical properties and biocompatibility, increases visual acuity, and yields satisfactory outcomes in the cataract treatment, which provides a new insight into the treatment of cataract.
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BACKGROUND:Tumor stem cels are found to be involved in the recurrence, metastasis and drug resistance of the tumor. OBJECTIVE:To explore the relationship between cel activity and multidrug resistance of CD44+CD24-/low breast cancer stem cels. METHODS:CD44+CD24-/low breast cancer stem cels sorted from multidrug resistant breast cancer cel line MCF-7/ADR were detected as percentage using flow cytometry. P-gp fluorescence intensity of the cel membrane and MDR mRNA expression in sorted cels and MCF-7/ADR were detected using flow cytometry and RT-PCR, respectively. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: After sorting by flow cytometry, the proportion of CD44+CD24-/low breast cancer stem cels was more than 90%, indicating that the sorted cels could meet the needs of the subsequent experiment. CD44+CD24-/low cel subsets exhibited stronger ability to form microspheres than non- CD44+CD24-/low cel subsets. The P-gp fluorescence intensity and MDR mRNA expression of CD44+CD24-/low cels were significantly higher than those of MFC-7/ADR cel line (P < 0.05). These experimental findings suggest that CD44+CD24-/low breast cancer stem cels sorted from MCF-7/ADR cel lines have a strong ability to form cel microspheresin vitro, and significantly raise the level of P-gp protein and MDR mRNA expression, which may be one of the causes of multidrug resistance.