Health concerns regarding malnutrition among the older populations: considerations from a Slovenian perspective.

Diet is an important factor in a healthy lifestyle for all age groups. However, with aging it is important to be aware that the diet, due to changed physiology, needs an accordingly adjusted and balanced daily regime. This article reviews the field of older population's nutrition and presents: the most common nutritional disorders, causes, demographics and malnutrition measurement tools.

Developing a Universal Nursing Competencies Framework for Registered Nurses: A Mixed-Methods Approach.

Purpose: To develop a methodology for identifying the universal nursing competencies required for registered nurses (RNs).

Design: A mixed-methods approach was used.

Methods: The research in this article entails a combination of different methodological approaches, namely the Delphi technique and an empirical quantitative nonexperimental study.

Identification of nursing competency assessment tools as possibility of their use in nursing education in Slovenia---a systematic literature review.

Aims: The aim of this study was to identify existing tools that purport to measure clinical nursing competence through the use of a systematic literature review to consider the possibilities of using them in nursing education in Slovenia.

Design: A systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines.

Methods: The databases that were searched included MEDLINE, Cinahl, Cochrane Library and Science Direct.

Students' well-being in nursing undergraduate education.

Background: Although previously the Job-Demand-Control-Support model has been successfully applied in many studies in the field of health care and education, the model was never used for the evaluation of the nursing students' well-being.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to promote nursing students' well-being. The objective was to verify whether the Job-Demand-Control-Support model is appropriate for the evaluation of their well-being.

The effect of voluntariness on the acceptance of e-learning by nursing students.

Although e-learning is an innovation that is worth making generally available, it is not always accepted by nursing students. Many researchers state that voluntariness is closely related to the individual level of adoption of innovations. Hence, we hypothesized that voluntariness moderates the effect of perceived attributes of innovations (e.

Hyperhomocysteinemia and the role of B vitamins in cancer.

Background: Patients suffering from malignancies have increased complications due to corresponding cardiovascular diseases and risk factor for the development of venous thromboembolism. Epidemiological studies have shown that increased homocysteine plasma concentration (hyperhomocysteinemia) is related to a higher risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease and malignancies. Homocysteine (tHcy) is an intermediate sulfur-containing amino acid produced from methionine during processing of dietary proteins.

Comparison of bacterial and phage display peptide libraries in search of target-binding motif.

Genetic engineering allows modification of bacterial and bacteriophage genes, which code for surface proteins, enabling display of random peptides on the surface of these microbial vectors. Biologic peptide libraries thus formed are used for high-throughput screening of clones bearing peptides with high affinity for target proteins. There are reports of many successful affinity selections performed with phage display libraries and substantially fewer cases describing the use of bacterial display systems.