Reclaiming 'Big Nurse': a feminist critique of Ken Kesey's portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

One flew over the Cuckoo's nest

Bulletin comment: Smoking, mental ill health and electronic cigarettes†

continues to be an acceptable facet of psychiatric hospital life. The cigarette and a light are used as currency to encourage good behaviour and adherence with the ward regime, making staff complicit in the supremely health-damaging activity. However, recent evidence contradicts many previous concerns about implementing an immediate blanket ban on smoking anywhere in psychiatric hospitals and t...

Solving a nurse rostering problem considering nurses preferences by graph theory approach

Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP) or the Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP) is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world and is known to be NP-hard.The problem is to decide which members of a team of nurses should be on duty at any time, during a rostering period of, typically, one month.It is very important to efficiently utilize time and effort, ...

Postcolonial feminist reading of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

Postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. Postcolonial feminism or the ‘Third World feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the Western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

The evolution of the meaning of the word nurse based on the classical texts of Persian literature

Background and Aim: The semantic evolution of a word over time is inevitable, indicating a social, political, religious or cultural process. Nurse is one of the words that has a significant presence in Persian literature texts and has been used in many different meanings such as slave, servan, maid, devotee, obedient, patient and preserver. The purpose of this study is to show its semantic ev...