Professional Development and Care Planning

The Covid-19 infection trend revealed to the Californian Prison healthcare system the importance of offering top-quality preventive and care services to control diseases. Irrespective of the understanding, there have been challenges in the transitional gap as older nurses are retiring and replaced by new ones. However, the lack of technical experience among the new nurses has exposed the patient population to human errors, which might be costly to amend. As a result, the initiative embarked on a project to train and empower nurses on preventive and care techniques. Critical areas of concern include reporting, data collection, patient symptomology, results interpretation, and active delivery of quality care. The initiative took an in-service training approach through seminars, workshops, and conferences to achieve the goals. The training provides hands-on skills and evidence-based strategies for dealing with diverse prison care system issues. More importantly, it empowers the nursing team to provide patient-centric care to prisoner patients effectively. The initiative results are motivated nursing team, well-empowered and skilled team, lowered transmission of diseases, reduced number of new disease cases, satisfied prisoner patients, and decreased the Californian Prison care unit\u27s cost. In conclusion, nurses\u27 empowerment through skill provision is vital in ensuring capacity building, practical skill imparts, and assured delivery of quality care services

Electrochemical behaviour of Ti6Al4V porous structures fabricated by powder metallurgy route

In this investigation, the powder metallurgy process was used to fabricate porous structures of Ti6Al4V alloy by adding space holder powder particles. The samples were fabricated with varying levels of compaction pressure and other process parameters were kept unchanged in order to investigate the variation in electrochemical behaviour. It was observed that a lower level of compaction pressure resulted in an increase in corrosion current density and rate and a decrease in polarisation resistance. The sample's inability to achieve passivity against electrochemical corrosion, when fabricated using a lower level of compaction pressure, was linked to a higher number of interconnecting micropores. The results of the microstructure analysis confirmed the significant densification of the powder particles when higher compaction pressure was used. The study recommends that a compaction pressure of 300 MPa or higher may be used for fabricating porous structures for biomedical applications