Nurses' perspectives on technical skill requirements in primary and tertiary healthcare services.

Aim: To explore nurses' perspectives on technical skill requirements in primary and tertiary healthcare services and their perspectives on where students should learn these skills.

Design: The study was conducted in Norway and had a cross-sectional, multicentre, descriptive design.

Methods: We used a questionnaire to explore registered nurses and intellectual disability nurses' perspectives on technical skill requirements and learning ( = 437).

Biomarker investigations in adult female perch (Perca fluviatilis) from industrialised areas in northern Sweden in 2003.

Since the new millennium, a notion has developed in certain parts of society that environmental pollutants and their associated effects are under control. The primary objective of this investigation, performed in 2003, was to test whether this was actually the case in an industrialised region in the County of Västernorrland in northern Sweden with well-documented environmental pollution from past and present activities. This was performed by measuring a moderate battery of simple biomarkers in adult female perch at several stations.