Becoming a Nurse: Professional Identity in Prelicensure Nursing Students.

Background: A correlation exists between professional identity (PI), hope, and job satisfaction that warrants interventional measures to reverse nurse turnover. Developing, nurturing, and improving nurses' PI can positively address nurse turnover.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the intersections between career motivation, PI formation, and belongingness in prelicensure nursing students.

Mandibular condylectomy and meniscectomy for the treatment of septic temporomandibular joint arthritis in a horse.

Objective: To report use of mandibular condylectomy for treatment of advanced degenerative joint disease of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) caused by sepsis.

Design: Clinical case report.

Animals: Two-year-old Noriker filly.