Popularised by Taiye Selasi, "Afropoliran" foregrounds the sense of belonging to the African continent for a young diasporic generation. This emphasis on Africa's centrality marks an interesting ...reconceptualisation of diaspora, usually rendered in terms of destination, in relation to the originary point of departure, one that is discernible particularly in recent fiction about the African diaspora. In Selasi's Ghana Must Go (2013) and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dust (2014), Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana loom large in the imaginations of its diasporic protagonists. Yet neither novel frames the African "home" as a straightforwardly celebratory location, and the prospect of the return is one characterised by paradox, for it is an outcome both deeply desired and feared. This essay explores how both novels deploy narrative strategies to dramatise and work through the anxiety of the homecoming for today's Afropolitans. Ultimately, although the experience of the Afropolitan subject is portrayed as melancholic, the positioning of Africa as central to the contemporary diasporic experience is read here as a progressively utopian gesture./ Popularisé par Taiye Selasi, le terme « afropolitain » met en évidence le sentiment d'appartenance au continent africain chez les jeunes générations diasporiques. Cette insistance sur la centralité africaine témoigne d'une intéressante reconceptualisation de la diaspora, généralement envisagée en tertnes de destination et en reference au point de depart originel, une reconceptualisation particulièrement perceptible dans la fiction récente sur la diaspora africaine. Dans Ghana Must Go de Selasi (2013) et Dust d'Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2014), l'imaginaire des personnages principaux, issus de la diaspora, semble aimanté par le Nigeria, le Kenya et le Ghana. Pourtant, aucun de ces deux romans ne campe « le foyer » africain comme un lieu a célébrer sans am bigultés, et la perspective du retour apparalt paradoxale, dans la mesure où est objet de crainte, autant que de désir. Le present article etudie les strategies narratives que ces romans déploient en vue de dramatiser et de négocier les anxiétés du retour chez les Afro politains d'aujourd'hui. En dernier ressort, et quoique l'expérience du sujet afropolitain soit dépeinte comme mélancolique, l'opération plaçant l'Afrique au centre de lexperience diasporique contemporaine apparaît ici comme un geste utopique et porteur de progrès.
Popularisé par Taiye Selasi, le terme « afropolitain » met en évidence le sentiment d’appartenance au continent africain chez les jeunes générations diasporiques. Cette insistance sur la centralité ...africaine témoigne d’une intéressante reconceptualisation de la diaspora, généralement envisagée en termes de destination et en référence au point de départ originel, une reconceptualisation particulièrement perceptible dans la fiction récente sur la diaspora africaine. Dans Ghana Must Go de Selasi (2013) et Dust d’Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2014), l’imaginaire des personnages principaux, issus de la diaspora, semble aimanté par le Nigéria, le Kenya et le Ghana. Pourtant, aucun de ces deux romans ne campe le « foyer » africain comme un lieu à célébrer sans ambiguïtés, et la perspective du retour apparaît paradoxale, dans la mesure où il est objet de crainte, autant que de désir. Le présent article étudie les stratégies narratives que ces romans déploient en vue de dramatiser et de négocier les anxiétés du retour chez les Afropolitains d’aujourd’hui. En dernier ressort, et quoique l’expérience du sujet afropolitain soit dépeinte comme mélancolique, l’opération plaçant l’Afrique au centre de l’expérience diasporique contemporaine apparaît ici comme un geste utopique et porteur de progrès.
Going into hospital may be a frightening experience. Fears and anxieties may be particularly compounded when the patient has an existing health diagnosis such as a mental health condition or ...intellectual disabilities (ID). While people with ID often have worse health than other people, they can experience more difficulty accessing healthcare.
The aim of this paper is to describe the self-evaluation process and outcome of a series of workshops designed to cultivate understanding of the health needs of adults with ID.
The research was designed to explore the impact of the workshops for generic healthcare professionals, using a mixed methods inquiry.
The workshops were interactive, and facilitated by health care clinicians, three people with an ID, advocates and academics.
Participants were mainly qualified and unqualified nurses and other allied health professionals (N=157).
Quantitative questionnaires comprised of 16 questions with multiple choice answers were distributed to all participants (pre and post workshop). A qualitative feedback sheet to promote shared dialogues was circulated on completion of each workshop.
Triangulated research methods of data collection demonstrate a positive impact of the workshops and the learning experienced from a participant perspective.
While resources alone will never replace nurse education and training, they can reinforce best practice, and the resource developed in this paper was maximized by workshops to explore its potential. The remaining challenge is measuring the impact of this work on clinical practice in the longer term.
Objective:
The last national survey of psychiatric-mental health (PMH) nurses was conducted in 2016 and was limited to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Data on the demographic and ...employment characteristics of the PMH workforce could inform how to optimize the PMH nursing workforce to address increasing demands for mental health services. The objective was to conduct a national survey of PMH registered nurses (RNs) and PMH-APRNs to gather data on their demographic, educational, and practice characteristics.
Methods:
An email survey was administered between October 2020 and February 2021 to all members of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and to all PMH-APRNs certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Separate surveys included 51 questions (RN) and 52 questions (APRN). Survey questions were informed by several sources including the Minimum Data Set for the Behavioral Health Workforce.
Results:
Surveys were completed by 4,088 PMH-RNs and 5,158 PMH-APRNs, with a combined response rate of 12.1%. Findings suggest that the workforce is aging but has increased slightly in diversity. In all, 62.4% of RNs reported a hospital as their primary employment setting, while the majority of APRNs (70.4%) practice in outpatient settings. Forty-four percent of the PMH-APRN respondents indicated that most of their patients receive federal insurance.
Conclusions:
Nursing must plan for significant retirements in the PMH workforce in next 5 years. Hospital-based practice continues to dominate PMH-RN roles but might be expanded to community-based settings teaming with PMH-APRNs in outpatient sites. Increasing the diversity of the workforce should be prioritized.
BACKGROUND: Further exploration of the practice roles of psychiatric mental health (PMH) advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) is warranted. OBJECTIVE: In March of 2016, the American ...Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) conducted a national survey to gather data on the demographics, practice roles, and activities of certified PMH APRNs. DESIGN: The e-mail survey contained 46 questions consistent with minimum data set requirements of the Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers. RESULTS: The data indicate that PMH APRNs are a clinically active workforce; the majority deliver a wide variety of mental health services including diagnosis and management of both acute and chronic mental illness, prescribing, and providing psychotherapy. CONCLUSION: PMH APRNs are delivering care to clients dealing with a range of serious mental illnesses across the life span in a variety of roles. It will be critical to monitor the activities and outcomes of this expanding behavioral health care workforce.
This dialogic roundtable discussion elaborates the possibilities opened up by the use of social reproduction theory in intersection with world-literary, materialist feminist, queer Marxist and ...world-systems approaches to literature and culture. In particular, contributors consider how the analysis of social reproduction might illuminate the politics of everyday life, the representational challenges accompanying the banality or ubiquity of women's work, the potential gaps of social reproduction feminism, and the aesthetic challenges accompanying or following from an interest in social reproduction. Topics covered include digital media as foundational operating mode of Hindu nationalism, the sexuality- and race-based exclusions of employment in higher education, Philippine literature as ‘reproductive fiction’, the Latin American novel vis-à-vis its registration of domestic service, the short story as bellwether for global issues surrounding women’s labour, and questions of complicity in the kinds of labour some women and sexual minorities enact for larger authoritarian, patriarchal projects. If women do much of the work of producing the everyday then we must also ask how women might re-make the everyday along more radical, and radically egalitarian lines.
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