Length of Shift,Work Outcomes,and Psychological Well‐Being of Nursing Staff

Abstract

This research examined the relationship of three work shift characteristics (length, working more than 8 hours, working double shifts) to work outcomes, indicators of psychological well‐being and perceptions of hospital functioning during a time of considerable hospital restructuring and downsizing. Data were collected from 744 hospital‐based nursing staff survivors of these changes. About 60% of the respondents worked shifts that were 9 hours or longer and 20% had worked two shifts back to back. Younger, less experienced nurses worked longer shifts. All three shift characteristics were significantly related to frequency of nursing errors and injuries.     

From Promiscuity to Living Together to Making the Decision to Break Up or Make a Lasting Commitment

Abstract

Although public administration was “born” and “reared” as a child of politics and constitutional democracy, the coherence of its central purposes later eroded into disparate fragments in a set of “promiscuous” relationships. But now the field has become accustomed to a casual mode in which a loose collection of sub-fields and competing worldviews “live together.” This invites leaving behind our intellectual origins and easy flirting with passing trends and alternative partners. Even while maintaining multiple external ties, the field should now seek to advance to an “adult” form of lasting commitment to a reaffirmed set of core values.     

Domesticating Ivoirité: Equating xenophobic nationalism and women’s marginalisation in Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu (2005)

Abstract

Tanella Boni, an author engaged with African women’s emancipation, has written cautionary essays since the 1990s decrying the xenophobic nature of government-sanctioned ivoirité in the Ivory Coast. Forced into exile owing to the subsequent strife (2000-2010), she wrote Matins de couvre-feu (2005), an allegorical novel in which the woman’s status as a second-class citizen is equated with that of a foreigner in a xenophobic state. This representation plays on the domestic / public space dichotomy, considered by feminist discourse to be a social barrier to women’s equal citizenship. Drawing on Boni’s own ‘feminist’ monograph, Que vivent les femmes d’Afrique? (2008), this article explores the internalisation of national politics (the public sphere) through the ‘domestication’ of an anonymous female narrator who is placed under house arrest. Thereafter an analysis of Kanga Ba, a character who is a victim of xenophobic nationalism, is used to substantiate the equation of the woman’s social and political marginalisation as being that of the foreigner. The argument concludes that Boni’s representational framework ultimately subverts the very notion of a public / domestic dichotomy through narrative strategies that illustrate the porous nature of both spaces, thus eliding the separation between private and national experiences.     

The US discourse on political Islam: is Obama's a truly post-‘war on terror’ administration?

In this article, I examine the legacy of the discourse on political Islam in the context of George W. Bush's ‘war on terror’, reflecting on the role this discourse has performed in constructing and affirming the United States' self-identity as a beacon of ‘democracy’, ‘progress’ and ‘modernity’, in contradistinction to an Islamist ‘other’. It will evaluate the three most prominent manifestations of the modern rationalist paradigm in relation to the ‘war on terror’ discourse: the tendency to ‘ideologise terror’; the tendency to conflate Islamist movements and view them solely within a security/counterterrorism framework; and the tendency to employ double standards when distinguishing between what is regarded as legitimate and illegitimate uses of political violence. This article will then consider to what extent it is appropriate to label the period since the Obama election as a truly ‘post-war on terror’ politics.     

Parliament,public engagement and legislation in Bangladesh: a case study of Domestic Violence Act of 2010

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the process of enactment of the domestic violence bill in Bangladesh. One of the distinctive features of the bill, passed in 2010, was that it originated in civil society and widespread public engagement characterised its enactment process. The paper explores the factors that encouraged different actors to agree to enact the law. There are, however, not many examples of parliament–CSO interaction in the legislative process. The paper identifies reasons that discourage engagement in other areas of public concern. Prominent among the reasons underlying weak public engagement in the legislative process are: monopoly of the government in the legislative process and its eagerness to pass laws in haste, dominance of part-timers in parliament, legal restriction on ‘independent’ voting in parliament, over-centralization of power in political parties and politicisation of CSOs.     

当前我国警察心理健康问题研究

当前,新形势对公安民警的素质和身心健康提出了越来越高的要求,公安机关的领导以及警界的学者们共同意识到健康的心理素质是警察依法履行职责、完成各项任务的重要保证。警察职业环境中存在着比常人更多的负向刺激物,警察在工作实践中会面临多种多样的压力事件,压力事件及压力情境构成警察的心理压力源,工作压力源成为警察心理压力源的主要内容。针对我国警察心理保健的现状、警察心理压力源及其对警察产生的负面影响,在公安机关开展警察心理保健工作,不仅能使人们了解警察行为的发生机制,使社会更加透彻地了解警察这个群体最为真实的工作生活状态,还能有效提升警务工作的服务效益。     

人民警察执勤执法行动中预防暴力袭警问题研究

当前,暴力袭警事件频频发生并逐年增加,袭警手段不断升级,已经成为不容回避的事实。此问题的成因很复杂,研究预防袭警问题是一项长期的工作,不能一蹴而就,文章从规范基层民警执勤执法行为,科学组织与指挥执法执勤行动,加强警用装备建设等方面入手,严格规范人民警察执法行动组织与实施的各个环节,为公安机关维护社会稳定及人民群众的生命财产安全,减少人民警察遇袭伤亡、有效打击袭警犯罪提供了现实借鉴意义。     

手机定位技术的应用与问题--以犯罪侦查为视角

随着3G网络时代的到来以及手机通讯技术的不断发展,手机定位技术得到不断的完善与发展。精确定位在侦查中以及紧急事件中的应用、“模糊定位”在社交网络中的应用既为我们带来了机遇与便捷,也隐藏着一定的问题。因此,以犯罪侦查学为视角,专题研究手机定位技术的应用以及在应用中存在的问题,提出相应的解决对策,对于预防手机定位技术在侦查和社交网络应用中的危害性很有必要。     

延安时期《中国文化》若干问题的研究

《中国文化》是延安时期中国共产党创办的刊物,在抗战时期复杂多变的国内外环境下,它肩负起建设抗战新文化的历史使命,为宣传先进文化、提升先进文化以及抵制错误文化思想作出了重要贡献。《中国文化》虽然前后只刊行了一年半时间,但却在中国共产党领导文化建设实践历程上留下了极其重要的财富。它收录了延安时期许多重要文化活动及文化事件的相关材料,在思想文化、学术研究及史料参考方面具有极大的价值。     

新型城镇化及其在陕西的实践与探索——2013年春季县级政府领导干部培训班学员研讨综述

新型城镇化正在成为中国经济增长和社会发展的强大引擎,受到各级政府的高度重视。陕西省行政学院2013年春季县级政府领导干部培训班以"积极稳妥推进陕西城镇化建设"为主题,全体学员与参会领导一起,围绕新型城镇化的内涵、新型城镇化的基本特征、陕西城镇化建设的探索与经验、陕西城镇化发展与新型城镇化中存在的主要问题、陕西实现新型城镇化的路径等方面进行了深入的讨论。陕西新型城镇化建设需要从改革户籍制度、农村土地制度、建立农民工服务体系等方面入手,解决新型城镇化的制度障碍。