Pasifika girls resisting the schooling regime of safety

In the last few decades, the word ‘safety' has become silently but increasingly pervasive in educational policies and debates, gaining a new momentum with the pandemic. Our intention in this article is to problematise what is done in schools in the name of safety by delving into the safety policy discourses of a New Zealand school and the narratives of resistance employed by a group of female Pasifika students during the Covid-19 crisis. This critical ethnographic inquiry explores how safety at schools operates as a mechanism to oppress their fights and reproduce inequalities in an era of apparent ‘racism without racists'. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

University Students' Learning Experiences in the Virtual Environment

The process of Teaching and Learning in times of Covid-19 brought experiences between teachers and students, seeking to improve with some teaching method to obtain satisfaction in their learning, the objective of this research is to validate the instrument of measurement of Teaching and Learning Experience Questionnaire (ETLQ) in the Peruvian context with university students, This instrument consists of three parts, the Teaching and Learning Environment which consists of 19 questions, the Student Learning Approach which consists of 9 questions and the Critical Thinking with 4 questions, each question is composed of 5-point Likert-type scales (1 point = "Strongly disagree" and 5 points = "Strongly agree". A total of 2027 university students participated throughout Peru, including students from national and private universities. Cronbach's Alpha =0.957 with 32 numbers of items was valid for its respective use, with which it will be possible to measure the Learning Experiences in university students, reinforcing this result with different tests whose results were optimal and reliability analysis. Concluding that, the validation instrument is valid in the Peruvian environment, online education is accepted in its highest percentage and that the rejection of this is only in the most vulnerable students and the feedback to students is the most outstanding. © 2022 IJETAE Publication House. All Rights Reserved.

A toy bear in lockdown, child-parent attachment and hegemonic peer-orientation

Towards the end of the first COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the authors conducted a small-scale study to gain insight into children’s responses to the pandemic restrictions. As it was not possible to interview children ourselves, we recruited parents to read a set of digital stories about a toy bear in lockdown to their children and to record the ensuing conversations. The recorded conversations were returned to the authors to be transcribed and analysed. One intriguing finding was the strength of children’s feelings of loss in regard to their friendship groups, despite the fact that the lockdowns enabled them to spend more time with their immediate families. This article examines the phenomenon of the importance of peer-orientation over family-orientation as it appeared in the data. Hegemonic thinking and attachment theory are used to further explore this phenomenon and discuss how the current educational trends towards personal independence over family bonds might have led to some of the feelings of loss and anxiety highlighted in the data. © 2022, Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research. All rights reserved.

Analysis of outcomes of emergency general and gastrointestinal surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BACKGROUND: Few surgical studies have provided adjusted comparative postoperative outcome data among contemporary patients with and without COVID-19 infection and patients treated before the pandemic. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of performing emergency surgery in patients with concomitant COVID-19 infection. METHODS: Patients who underwent emergency general and gastrointestinal surgery from March to June 2020, and from March to June 2019 in 25 Spanish hospitals were included in a retrospective study (COVID-CIR). The main outcome was 30-day mortality. Secondary outcomes included postoperative complications and failure to rescue (mortality among patients who developed complications). Propensity score-matched comparisons were performed between patients who were positive and those who were negative for COVID-19; and between COVID-19-negative cohorts before and during the pandemic. RESULTS: Some 5307 patients were included in the study (183 COVID-19-positive and 2132 COVID-19-negative during pandemic; 2992 treated before pandemic). During the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 infection had greater 30-day mortality than those without (12.6 versus 4.6 per cent), but this difference was not statistically significant after propensity score matching (odds ratio (OR) 1.58, 95 per cent c.i. 0.88 to 2.74). Those positive for COVID-19 had more complications (41.5 versus 23.9 per cent; OR 1.61, 1.11 to 2.33) and a higher likelihood of failure to rescue (30.3 versus 19.3 per cent; OR 1.10, 0.57 to 2.12). Patients who were negative for COVID-19 during the pandemic had similar rates of 30-day mortality (4.6 versus 3.2 per cent; OR 1.35, 0.98 to 1.86) and complications (23.9 versus 25.2 per cent; OR 0.89, 0.77 to 1.02), but a greater likelihood of failure to rescue (19.3 versus 12.9 per cent; OR 1.56, 95 per cent 1.10 to 2.19) than prepandemic controls. CONCLUSION: Patients with COVID-19 infection undergoing emergency general and gastrointestinal surgery had worse postoperative outcomes than contemporary patients without COVID-19. COVID-19-negative patients operated on during the COVID-19 pandemic had a likelihood of greater failure-to-rescue than prepandemic controls.

Experience of nursing performance in the unit de ictus during the pandemic for covid-19

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused social transformations and in the health institutions themselves. It requires health personnel to face new challenges and challenges. It demands that Nursing care be increasingly complex and employ new strategies for the organization of services and the provision of care. Objective: Describe the main experiences of Nursing activities in the stroke unit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An account of experiences is presented, in which the open narrative was used, carried out by the author as the protagonist of the Nursing performance in the stroke unit during the covid-19 pandemic between March and October 2020. As methodological tool, the participant observation was used. It was used for the prosecution of the information the methodological route for the narrative investigation. Results: The construction of the story, was it conforms for the categories of analysis: Style of administration of the applied care, adaptive mechanisms in the face of stressful situations, compliance with healthcare protocols, quality indicators, patient situation, most frequent nursing diagnoses. Conclusions: The Nursing staff of the stroke unit maintained an effective adaptive reaction to the threatening situation of the pandemic. They focused on the strict application of the established biosecurity protocol and guaranteed continuous and quality assistance. No member of the health team was infected with the Covid-19 virus. The patients did not present worsening of the neurological state and the family members expressed security with the care provided. © 2021, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.

Recommendations for the teams that manage school canteens in the public health emergency of COVID-19 in Argentina

The impact of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 may deepen the situations of malnutrition, where it will be necessary to adapt food programs to this new context. The objective of this work was to present the methodology and the main results of the process of formulating a federal guide based on scientific evidence and adapted to the reality of the child and adolescent population that attend school canteens in the 24 jurisdictions of Argentina. It was observed that the modalities for the implementation of SC during the pandemic were: food modules (the most frequent);food modules delivered at school with regular SC support and, food and/or snacks delivered daily. There was little evidence at the global and regional level on specific recommendations applied to the implementation of SC, although recommendations on hygiene and food handling were found. Based on a participatory process among key actors, specific recommendations were obtained according to the dimensions of food and nutrition security (FNS). It is concluded that it is necessary to increase participatory experiences in the design of recommendations based on evidence, adapted to the territory and that assume a comprehensive approach from the dimensions of FNS. Arch Latinoam Nutr 2020;70(3): 215-234. © 2020 Archivos Latinoamericanos Nutricion. All rights reserved.