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2024-03-29T08:33:52ZCensorship and Kenyan Cinema
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Censorship and Kenyan Cinema
Wesonga, Robert
Book Chapter on Censorship and Kenyan Cinema
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZProjections of a Return to Peace in Francis Imbuga’s The Return of Mgofu and John Ruganda’s Shreds of Tenderness: Relevance to Post-Genocide Rwanda.
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Projections of a Return to Peace in Francis Imbuga’s The Return of Mgofu and John Ruganda’s Shreds of Tenderness: Relevance to Post-Genocide Rwanda.
Wesonga, Robert
Since independence, the African continent has witnessed
varying degrees of conflict and instability. In some cases,
these conflicts have been upheavals, easily quelled while in
others they have threatened to cripple nations. This state of
affairs has been imagined on the post-independence African
literary landscape which has seen a wide range of conflict
literatures. This paper seeks to examine the dramatization of
conflict and the projection of possibilities of hope and peace
in two dramas: The Return of Mgofu by Imbuga (2011) and
Shreds of Tenderness by Ruganda (2001). The paper aims at
comparing and contrasting the nature of conflict in the two
dramas. This shall be followed by an interrogation of how
similarly and/or differently the two playwrights project
various possibilities of a return to peace. This analysis will
also seek to answer the troubling question with regard to
conflicts in Africa: Is it possible to have reconciliation and
return to peace without retributive justice? While one of the
dramas emphasizes the need for perpetrators to pay penance
for wrongs done, the other advocates for withdrawal into the
spiritual world of traditional African religion in the search for
cohesion – restorative justice. This paper shall utilize
sociological theories of literary criticism and the semiotics
paradigm in literary criticism. The sociological theories shall
be used to probe conflict as presented in the dramas as an
incident of the prevalent social struggles, while the semiotics
theory shall be used to read the use of symbolism and
metaphor in projecting possibilities towards amity.
Book Chapter on Projections of a Return to Peace in Francis Imbuga’s
The Return of Mgofu and John Ruganda’s Shreds of
Tenderness: Relevance to Post-Genocide Rwanda.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZEthical Dilemmas on End-Of-Life Issues: Taxing Values and Fait-Care Wo K
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Ethical Dilemmas on End-Of-Life Issues: Taxing Values and Fait-Care Wo K
Kamau, Simon Macharia
Background: Occasionally, a patient in critical care can die no matter
what we do. Others may have had a good chance of recovery if
admitted, but then limited resources impact on admission. Profound
ethical questions confront the medical personnel as they watch and
wait helplessly.
Setting: Critical Care Unit, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital,
Eldoret
Objectives: To explore dilemmas on end of life which have a heavy
bearing on Doctors and Nurses: legally, morally and ethically.
Materials and methods: A case study of ZX derived from the local
setting involving a patient who was in the Critical Care Unit for one
year sixty five days. This was experiential: a best case scenario.Consent to highlight and publish the case study was sought from a
relative of the deceased. The case study consist of a content analysis
of the patient file, ethical issues arising were noted and were cross-
checked to ensure they reflect the entries in the patient file. This study
seeks to dissect some ethical issues experienced in management of
ZX.
Conclusion: Modern health care has given rise to extremely complex
and multifaceted ethical dilemmas. More often the health care workers
(Physicians/nurses) are unprepared to manage these competently.
There is no Law or guidelines in Kenya on end-of-life issues, making
ethical dilemmas inevitable. ZX case brings out four topics that pose
particularly vexing problems to the health care givers in their practice
of medicine: Respect and equal treatment; Communication and
consent; Decision making for incompetent patients; and end of life
issues. Professional health care providers associations in Kenya
should issue pragmatic policy guidelines to safeguard the Kenyan
medics.
Book on Ethical Dilemmas on End-of-Life Issues: Taxing
Values and Faith of health -Care Workers in Kenya
2013-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Role of Nursing Education & Practice in Assuring Quality Health Care in Low-Resource Countries A case study of Kenya
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The Role of Nursing Education & Practice in Assuring Quality Health Care in Low-Resource Countries A case study of Kenya
Kamau, Simon Macharia
The role of nursing educaion and practice in quality and access to quality health care can
never be overstated. During each patient encounter, the nurse is focused on confirming
that treatments are successfully delivered, assessments accurately documented, and
medications administered correctly. The quality and impact of patient care depend on safe
and effective care delivery as well as quality of training.
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the IOM (2011) identified
issues and made recommendations related to the scope of nursing practice; preparing nurses
for leadership roles in system transformation; development of nurse residency programs;
and ensuring nurses engage in life-long learning. The report identified the close link
between the future of nursing and the success of healthcare reform. The report looked at
the future of nursing in these respects. Sources from American Association of Colleges
of Nursing (AACN) indicated that Registered Nurses comprised one of the largest
segments of the U.S. workforce as a whole and were among the highest paying large
occupations.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, Registered Nursing was/is the top
occupation in terms of the largest job growth projections from 2008 – 2018. Nearly 58%
of RNs worked in general medical and surgical hospitals, where RN salaries averaged
$66,700 per year.According to International Council of Nurses, in the area of policy
makers, nursing's aim should be simple – to be a part of this group, to be able to articulate
and demonstrate the value of the contribution nursing can make, and be seen as a credible
and integral part of the process.
Many times the phrase "healthcare reform" is mentioned but it is exactly what it is by
how it affects your nursing practice. There is no escaping this reality. Nursing education
and leadership are critical areas that must be developed and sustained for us to be able
to surmount these challenges. Nursing has a long and proud history of influencing the
development of new policies in order to enhance the health of the people we serve. Hospitals
were going to be paid for the value their services produce, not the volume of services
performed. This was already happening elsewhere.
From Florence Nightingale to Lillian Wald, to Loretta C. Ford to Ramey Johnson nurses
have been active in directing the policies that shaped their practice and their patients. Nurses
today are no exception. That is why it is important for us, as emerging leaders, to
understand the importance of policy, advocacy and gain some insight into the strategies
that can be used to advance a policy initiative. When she was nearing the end of her life,
Florence Nightingale said: “May we hope that when we are all dead and gone, leaders will
arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties
and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we
have done.
A Book in The Role of Nursing Education & Practice in Assuring
Quality Health Care in Low-Resource Countries
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z