577 research outputs found
J. Patrick Rafferty, violin
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Analysing the justice needs of Rwandan female victim-survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and their experiences with the gacaca courts
No full textJudith Rafferty analysed the justice needs of Rwandan women who were raped during the 1994 genocide. She found that the women had multiple justice needs and many, but not all, were addressed by Rwandan community courts. Her findings can help design justice processes that consider the needs of rape survivors
Transformative impact of Magnet designation: England case study
No full textAims:? To test the impact of the implementation of Magnet principles of improving nurses’ work environments.Background:? Magnet hospital designation developed in the USA in the 1980s to recognise hospitals that had created excellent patient care environments and supported the professional practice of nursing. A pilot initiative in England was the first test of the applicability of Magnet standards outside the USA.Methods:? Research methods included surveys of nurses in the demonstration hospital in a predesign and postdesign and comparisons to survey results of nurses practicing in a national sample of 30 National Health Service Trusts.Results:? Prior to beginning the Magnet journey, the demonstration hospital had a nurse work environment that was somewhat less positive than the national sample NHS hospitals. Nurses practicing in the demonstration hospital were somewhat less satisfied with their jobs than nurses in other NHS hospitals. Following a two-year period during which the evidence-based Magnet standards were implemented and Magnet Designation was awarded, the quality of the nurse practice environment had improved significantly, as had job satisfaction of nurses and their appraisals of the quality of patient care. The quality of the nurse practice environment after Magnet designation was better than that of a national sample of NHS trusts. Improved nurse outcomes were because of the improved practice environment rather than staffing enhancements.Conclusions:? Implementation of the Magnet hospital intervention was associated with a significantly improved nursing work environment as well as improved job-related outcomes for nurses and markers for quality of patient care.Relevance to clinical practice:? Nurses can use Magnet principles to improve the quality of their work environment
[Louise Crawford Allen, Wallace E. Garets and Keen Rafferty]
No full text1965 photograph of Louise Crawford Allen receiving a plaque and accompanied by Wallace E. Garets and Keen Rafferty.Caption: HONORED AT JOURNALISM MEET -- Mrs. Louise (James G.) Allen, associate professor of Journalism emeritus, was presented the Texas Tech department of Journalism's Meritorious Service plaque at the March annual meeting of the Southwestern Journalism Conference in Lubbock. Wallace E. Garets (right), head of the Tech Journalism Department, made the award at the Conference luncheon at which Keen Rafferty, head of the University of New Mexico department of journalism, presided. Mrs. Allen retired in 1963 after 35 years on the Tech faculty. (Tech photo
The history of ministerial workforce policy and planning in British nursing, 1939-1960
No full textThis thesis examines the government's tripartite
approach to
workforce policy and
planning in British nursing from 1939 until
1960. Emerging histories have
placed
emphasis on the ministries and their effect upon the
development
of nursing.
However,
there remains no examination of their
distinctive
and
interrelated
roles
in
managing
nursing workforce policy and planning,
This thesis
examines the
contribution
of
three
of
these ministries from initial workforce
involvement in the
early
1940s, through to the
1950s and the advent of the Committee on
Senior
Nursing
Staff Structure
(the Salmon
Report). It concludes that three distinct roles
emerged
from
each of
the
ministries.
The
Ministry of Labour and National Service (MLNS)
dealt
with nurse
recruitment,
the
Ministry of Health addressed retention through
conditions
of service,
while
the
Colonial
Office represented replenishment. Such division
of ministerial
roles
and
any
limited
collaboration, however, did not appear to
be
a
part of
any
conscious workforce
policy.
The thesis argues that although the Ministry of
Health
and the
MLNS
viewed
nursing
as
less prestigious than a traditional profession, strategies
appealing to
nurses'
aspirations
were used to promote a sense of professional value
in
an
occupation
of
many
countervailing tensions. Nursing appeared to
occupy
its
own
unique
space
between
professions and industrial labour.
i The post-war management of the nursing workforce emerges as a
highly
reactive
policy,
focusing upon diverse groups for recruitment.
It
covered the
use
of part-time
nurses
to fit
into the social expectations of post-war women,
the
recruitment
of male
nurses and
a
manipulation of colonial legislation to the
clear
benefit
of
British
nursing.
Nurse
shortages are explored against government unease
in the immediate
post-war period with
the effects of increasing colonial immigration of
black
workers,
which
was uncontrolled
due to their status as British subjects.
The
ultimate
inadequacy
of
workforce
policies
in
nursing to deal with the recruitment of
black
nurses
remains
a
current
and controversial
workforce issue
Politicising stardom: Jane Fonda, IPC Films and Hollywood, 1977-1982
No full textPhDThis thesis is an empirical analysis of Jane Fonda’s films, stardom, and political activism during the most commercially successful period of her career. At the outset, Fonda’s early stardom is situated in relation to contemporaneous moral and political ideologies in the United States and how she functioned as both an agent and symbol of these ideologies. Her anti-war activism in the early-1970s constituted the apex of Fonda’s radicalisation and the nadir of her popular appeal; a central question of this thesis, therefore, is how her stardom was rehabilitated for the American mainstream to the point of becoming Hollywood’s most bankable actress.
As the star and producer of IPC Films, Fonda developed political projects using commercial formats, namely Coming Home (1978), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980), and Rollover (1981). The final IPC film, On Golden Pond (1981), signalled an ideological breach in this political strategy by favouring a familial spectacle, and duly outperformed its predecessors significantly. The first and last chapters of this work provide historical parameters for IPC in Fonda’s career, while the remaining chapters are structured by the conceptual and political aspects of each IPC project. Julia (1977) is discussed as an IPC prototype through its dramatisation of political consciousness. Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, and Rollover all exhibit this motif whereas On Golden Pond employs melodramatic nostalgia. Often discussed reductively as a star symbolising change, this thesis instead uses archival and published sources to analyse Fonda’s individual agency in historical context, as well as the cultural and political impact of her stardom. The IPC enterprise provided cinematic apparatus for Fonda’s political recuperation within the American mainstream, which, more broadly, harboured significance for the nation’s conservative resurgence at the end of the 1970s
In Tune, BBC Radio 3: 'Berta Joncus in conversation with Sean Rafferty about her book Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster'
No full textSean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio from mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz with Jaume Santonja Espinós. The viol consort Fretwork join us too, and author Berta Joncus chats to Sean about her new book Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster
Neuroscience, Psychology and Conflict Management
No full textThis peer reviewed eBook introduces readers to foundational concepts in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, personality psychology and social psychology to help explain why conflict occurs, how it develops and how it may be managed and/or resolved
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