ABSTRACT
Background: Caregivers not being allowed into the COVID wards prevented them from being involved in caring for their relatives in respect of day-to-day activities such as eating, drinking, and walking to the washroom. The aim of this study was to observe the challenges faced by patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) with COVID-19 pneumonia. We also observed the impact of two simple nursing interventions related to feeding and defecation and noted their impact in terms of patient's satisfaction. Materials and Methods: A semi-structured feedback questionnaire was prepared to cover common challenges faced by patients after interview with 10 patients admitted at a COVID ICU. Two simple nursing interventions were performed related to feeding and defecation. Results: Breathlessness was the most common issue as all the patients admitted were hypoxic. Inability to perform routine day-to-day functions such as feeding, drinking, sitting, and walking were other common issues. Emotional issues like anxiety, fear homesickness, and loneliness were also very high. Most (69.44%) patients were satisfied with a blended diet which was easy to take for patients with breathlessness. Most (77.28%) of patients were satisfied with intervention of helping them sit on a commode chair while on oxygen. Conclusion: During this pandemic, where all our efforts seemed insufficient in face of this unprecedented crisis yet these small seemingly insignificant steps helped both the patients as well as nurses in making the atmosphere more positive.
ABSTRACT
'Campus Visit' is the most significant facet of college enrolment program. An in-person strolling 'campus-tour' is a tiresome task that is generally infeasible for the guests to explore all the amenities within a day due to distance, time constraints, or due to budgetary imperatives. With the innovative movements, the idea of the computerized visit goes under a bigger brolly of Virtual Reality and because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for virtual exploration is on the rise. VR has an incredible potential to reimagine and reconstruct the reality with magnificent visualizations by allowing virtual access to objects and places that may be out of reach in the real world. Undoubtedly, 'Virtual-Tour' has become a celebrated methodology for cheap and cheerful voyaging. This perlustration perspicuously elucidates the impactful usage of VR in assorted fields and spotlights the use of VR in 'Campus-Tour'. Additionally, it focusses on featuring the quality and restrictions of prior proposed VR techniques and ultimately, drives out the supreme strategy that offers an immersive experience to the end-user. © 2020 IEEE.