Male High School Students' Perceptions of Nursing as a Professional Career Choice: Nursing Pathway Project.

Aim: The aim of this study was to understand male high school students' perceptions of nursing as a professional career choice.

Background: Nursing is predominantly female, with male nurses accounting for less than 10 percent of the nursing workforce.

Method: A 32-item descriptive survey that contained demography items and constructs of the theory of planned behavior was administered to 820 high school students from a large Pacific Northwest school district.

Forensic injury biomechanics.

Forensic injury biomechanics is the science that relates mechanical forces to disruption of anatomical regions of the human body. In this review, we introduce (a) how scaling techniques can be used to describe injury severity and probability of death; (b) how a simple ratio, the factor of risk, and more sophisticated injury risk functions can be used to determine the probability of injury; and (c) how injury criteria (also known as tolerance limits) are defined for the head and neck. Methods for establishing injury causation are then illustrated by real-world examples drawn from litigation involving motor vehicle collisions and slips, trips and falls.