Developing Authentic Mentorship Through Professional Organizations

Harsh realities in pandemic fatigue, burnout, inequities, and isolation are impacting academic pharmacy. Mentoring programs, especially inter-institutional programs such as those provided within the Sections and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), may combat some of these issues. Unfortunately, year after year, Academy members continue to request information from these groups on mentoring, whether it be the opportunity to pair up, for advice on how to be better mentors, or for guidance on how to develop a program on mentoring for the Sections and SIGs without an existing program. The need for authentic mentoring is vital to the success and retention of faculty and staff within the Academy. Therefore, it may be appropriate to take a closer look at why, despite ongoing mentoring programs scattered within AACP Sections and SIGs, these programs are unable to fulfill the needs of participants. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is the property of American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

The pandemic politics of cultural work: collective responses to the COVID-19 crisis

The scope, unevenness, and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on cultural work has been widely acknowledged. This article turns to how sections of the cultural industries responded to the onset of this crisis. Our account is based on document research completed during the first wave of the pandemic. We gathered news reports, impact survey results, policy recommendations, open letters, event announcements, and other grey literature generated by a range of organizations in the cultural sector, including trade unions, professional associations, and activist groups, among others. Framed by the concepts ‘labouring of culture' and ‘policy from below', our thematic analysis of this material reveals that cultural workers responded to the pandemic by surfacing the idea of cultural production as work;by enacting practices of care and mutual aid;and by proposing policy changes. These collective responses are marked by multiple tensions, particularly between rehabilitating the status quo in the cultural sector and radically reimagining it for a post-COVID-19 world.

Using DEC-Recommended Practices to Support Virtual Classrooms and Remote Learning

The global pandemic has meant that some schools are back in session with new and changing rules, and others are providing remote learning. The U.S. Department of Education has addressed specialized instruction through remote learning for children with disabilities, including addressing misconceptions about service delivery for children with disabilities making clear that school districts and early intervention programs are mandated to continue providing meaningful educational opportunities for children with disabilities (United States Department of Education, 2020). Children with disabilities have a right to services that address their IEP goals during the pandemic, and teachers are being asked to be innovative and flexible and work with families to create equitable learning opportunities to support children's interactions with each other. During this unusual and difficult time, many families do not have access to email to answer questionnaires, limited capacity to answer phone calls, unreliable or no access to the internet, or no or inadequate devices to support instructional platforms. District and school leaders need to support teachers in identifying and addressing these challenges to provide equitable access to learning opportunities. In this article, the authors provide strategies for quality virtual instruction with an emphasis on family engagement.

We need mutual aid too: group work instructors helping each other navigate online teaching

The introduction of COVID-19 disrupted almost every facet of global societies, including institutions of higher education. With limited time to prepare for the emergent shift to virtual instruction, few educators had the time or emotional energy to invest in course redesign to meet established standards of quality online education. Strained by lack of guidance from their institutions and limited confidence in teaching social group work virtually, twelve group work educators initially participated in a weekly mutual aid group of peer members sponsored by the International Association for Social Work with Groups. This paper describes the evolution of a peer-facilitated, international, mutual aid group for group work educators making the transition to an online format – its conception, formation, purpose, structure, facilitation, and process. The authors address the personal experiences of all members, and place the group into a theoretical context.

A Global Picture of School Social Work in 2021

The article provides a global picture of school social work in 2021 using data gathered by the International Network for School Social Work. School social work is a growing specialty around the world. There are school social workers practicing in more than 50 countries. School social workers support students' educational success, especially those who are marginalized by poverty, oppression, disability and other personal or social problems. Ideally school social workers practice within a multi-disciplinary team to address wide-ranging barriers to education and participate in preventive programs for all students. The article describes the growth of school social work around the world, various models of practice, the role of specialty professional associations, training and standards, and the growth of school social work literature. Changes in the role and practice of school social work since the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/2021 are included. International communication among school social workers has grown via publications, conferences and the International Network for School Social Work, and continues to assist expansion of the specialty around the world. Implications for the future of social work in education are discussed, a list of national school social work associations is provided and references include literature on school social work from various countries.

The Collaborative Model for Teaching o-SEL: Preparing Educators to Design Online Environments for Social-Emotional Learning

In this study, we sought to develop a model to provide educators with training and resources to effectively support and guide social-emotional learning (SEL) in PK-12 online environments, which we refer to as o-SEL. We utilized five national sets of standards and competencies to guide the development of six online modules for educators to gain skills, knowledge, and resources to help students learn SEL-related skills. Qualitative methods and analysis were employed to examine our research question. We utilized design thinking as a strategy for developing o-SEL professional learning. Five SEL experts were identified and invited to participate in a brief survey to determine areas of focus and then we conducted two one-hour focus groups. The focus group discussion was transcribed, coded, and analyzed to determine emergent themes related to areas of SEL needs in online learning environments. Based on our findings, we identified six elements (i.e., Empower, Engage, Motivate, Include, Collaborate, Extend) for educators to foster inclusive o-SEL environments for PK-12 learners that we describe as the Collaborative Model for Teaching o-SEL. We discuss the positive impact that o-SEL instruction can have on student learning outcomes, while also designing inclusive and culturally relevant support structures. This study calls for further investigation regarding teacher application of the o-SEL model and impact of o-SEL on student learning.

Effects of COVID-19 on sub-Saharan African library associations

Professional associations serve as a backbone for their members in Africa and globally. They promote the welfare of their members and have standards and principles that guide their activities. This is a quantitative study of 10 national library associations in sub-Saharan Africa. The study looks at some of the activities of the national library associations and how they were impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19. The findings show that the majority of the associations had to postpone their annual conferences and continuous professional education programmes. The study recommends that national library associations from sub-Saharan Africa take advantage of technological platforms to reach out to their members in the organization of conferences and training programmes. Also, national library associations should have a policy that can drive their activities in the future in the event of the occurrence of another pandemic.

AS CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS NA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19: ROTINAS DE TRABALHO E DESIGUALDADES *

O objetivo desse texto é analisar as consequências da pandemia de covid-19 nas rotinas de trabalho acadêmico das ciências sociais no Brasil. O estudo se baseia em resultados de um survey difundido com o apoio de associações profissionais da antropologia, ciência política, sociologia e das relações internacionais. O artigo apresenta o perfil dos 1.073 participantes e suas percepções sobre os efeitos da crise nas atividades de formação, ensino e pesquisa, bem como na divisão das tarefas do âmbito privado. Embora a maior parte dos respondentes tenha declarado sentir impactos negativos da pandemia, há disparidades por disciplina de atuação, gênero e raça. Os dados reforçam a importância da discussão de parâmetros de avaliação de produtividade sensíveis às desigualdades.Alternate :The purpose of this text is to analyze the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic in the academic work routines of Social Sciences in Brazil. The study is based on the results of a survey disseminated with the support of professional associations in Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology and International Relations. The article presents the profile of the 1,073 participants and their perceptions about the effects of the crisis on training, teaching and research activities, as well as on the division of tasks in the private sphere. Although most respondents said they felt negative impacts of the pandemic, there are disparities by discipline, gender and race. The data reinforce the importance of discussing productivity evaluation parameters sensitive to inequalities.

Back in the Saddle

The article highlights the success of the National Environmental Health Association's 85th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition held in Spokane, Washington from June 28, 2022 to July 1, 2022. Topics mentioned include a list of pre-conference offerings to members of the association, the acquisition of skills and knowledge to help solve the daily challenges, and the contribution of sponsors to the success of the event.

VigiNetWork: a Community Pharmacists-Network on Pharmacovigilance in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto Region: An International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Drug Experience

Introduction: The literature shows that in Italy community pharmacists and patients are not active enough in reporting adverse drug reactions (ADRs) [1-3]. To improve these replies it has been set up VigiNetWork project (September 2020-September 2022): it is a multiregional (Emilia-Romagna and Veneto Region) pharmacovigilance (PV) project funded by the Italian Medicines Agency, joining pharmacists and citizens in pharmacovigilance activities within the community pharmacies. Objective: To develop a pharmacovigilance network among community pharmacies, to promote spontaneous ADRs reporting by pharmacists and patients and to improve pharmacists' knowledge on drug safety. Methods: The project has been promoted through social networks, webinars, local newspapers, and the Category Professional Associations. An information leaflet explaining its characteristics, a free access to two e-learning courses and a personal access to a website (www.vigirete.it) have been made available to enrolled pharmacists. A similar leaflet has been developed for patients. To evaluate the effectiveness of VigiNetWork we assessed the number of enrolled community pharmacies/pharmacists and of ADR reports submitted by them, their participation to e-learning courses and their visits to the website. Results: From September 2020 to March 2022 a total of 669 and 371 community pharmacies were enrolled respectively in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto Region (Table 1). A total of 339 and 516 (about 90% of total reports from community pharmacists) ADR reports were submitted from the pharmacists of VigiNetWork respectively in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto Region and an increase in comparison to the previous 18 months was observed. The impact of the project in patient reporting was presumed, but not assessable. In our study period 40% and 58% of enrolled pharmacists registered for distance learning courses respectively in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto Region, even if only about 5% of them completed the training in both Regions. The website reached 2113 (86% of enrolled pharmacists) unique visitors.Conclusion: Our project showed a great attention of community pharmacists to PV, increased also due to COVID-19 pandemic. The total number of submitted reports, even if limited, represented almost the totality of all reports from community pharmacists in both Regions and their interest in our website contents was appreciable. More efforts could be done to continue these activities in daily practice.

THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST DECADE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

Arthur Molella, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), authored an excellent historical review of the formation and the early impact of the NAI (1). Now, as we complete the first decade of the NAI, I will emphasize the importance of the intellectual revolution that the NAI has achieved for the betterment of academia and for our society as a whole. The NAI is much more than just a professional society since it spans all professions. Like the other national academies, the NAI's impact extends well beyond academia, expanding knowledge, capabilities, and employment in the private and government sectors as well. The NAI has brought the process of new knowledge discovery, which is primarily conducted in our major research universities, back into the broader service of our knowledge-based economy, returning to the vision and mission of higher education as embodied in our land-grant universities and expanded through the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. To understand the past benefit and future promise of the NAI, it must be viewed primarily as the transformative process that it is-one that works for the betterment of human-kind.

Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities

This essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, activists, writers, and literature scholars who participated in building the field. The essay traces how the original idea of "humanizing physicians" evolved and how crises from death and dying, to AIDS and COVID-19, expanded humanistic inquiry into health, illness, and the human condition. It examines how a wide array of scholars, professional organizations, disciplinary approaches, academic units, and intellectual agendas came to define the vibrant field. This remarkable growth offers a counterpoint to narratives of decline in the humanities. It is a story of growing relevance shaped by tragedy, of innovative programs in medical schools and on undergraduate campuses, and vital new configurations of ethics, literature, the arts, and history that breathed new life into the study of health and medicine.

Leveraging on Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Sustainable Bioeconomy

Sustainable Development (SD) has remained a major discourse in the political and academic circles for over a decade. According to the United Nations, SD is defined by 17 measurable goals which could be used to evaluate a nation's achievements. Lately, the concept of bioeconomy has emerged as a strategic direction for economic prosperity among the comity of nations amid the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is argued that bioeconomy has the ultimate potential of actualizing the SD goals. Consequent upon such prospects, this paper seeks to establish a nexus between the pervasive knowledgedriven technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the development and sustenance of a vibrant bioeconomy. It adopts a systematic review with a prime focus on how AI integrates and drives biotechnological processes towards sustainable production particularly in the area of food security. This paper further identifies the lapses in the integration and adoption processes and makes a case for interdisciplinary collaboration among professional societies who are the major players in the academia and the industry, as well as the government's contribution towards the review and implementation of appropriate public-private partnership programs to drive AI-driven biotech projects at the grassroots.

Acquisition of knowledge through creativity and leadership in a multidisciplinary environment

Involving students in collaborative projects and experiential learning helps develop transversal skills that, with passive learning, do not usually have specific training or reinforcement. Additionally, certain transversal skills such as the ability to communicate and coordinate in interdisciplinary work groups are essential for our graduates in their professional activity. The project consisted of a simulation of a real work environment in which a multidisciplinary team, made up of students from two different subjects of different degrees, must coordinate their efforts to propose a coherent solution to a problem. This project aims to reinforce the skills and competencies necessary both for the development of the rest of the subjects and for the subsequent exercise of the profession. These skills require reinforcement not only from the teacher but also from the classmates themselves, who would be competitors, students and the jury at the same time when assessing the results of the rest of the students. The problem to be solved focused on a proposal related to the supply of energy for a hypothetical agricultural industry, where agricultural engineering students carried out a design project for an electrical installation and the building students participated in the project by conducting an energy audit. Through collaborative work, it has been seen that students show a total willingness to work with students of other degrees and that the learning process improves since there is a greater interaction of skills and knowledge, which gives them an interdisciplinary vision of what it would perform a real job. Despite the difficult situation motivated by COVID pandemic, the project was successful and in total 25 students participated demonstrating that cooperative learning improves transversal skills.

Ethical challenges in an evolving digital communication era: coping resources and ethics trainings in corporate communications

Purpose>This study is motivated to investigate the ethical challenges facing public relations professionals in today's digital communication environment. Specifically, the authors focused the research on the new ethical challenges in digital practice, the resources relied on when encountering ethical challenges and public relations professionals' efforts in seeking trainings on communication ethics.Design/methodology/approach>An international online survey was designed and conducted in Canada and the USA. The final sample includes 1,046 respondents working full time in the profession of public relations and communication. In addition, the authors prespecified several demographic quotas in sampling design in order to recruit a more representative sample.Findings>The research found nearly 60% of surveyed professionals reported that they faced ethical challenges in their day-to-day work, and there is a wide range of ethical challenges in digital practices. Results also revealed that professionals use various resources to deal with ethical issues. Those resources include ethical codes of practice of professional associations, ethical guidelines of their organizations and their personal values and beliefs. As common as experiencing ethical challenges, over 85% of surveyed professionals reported that they have participated in communication ethics training. However, only 30% of participants indicated that their ethics training took place in the past year.Originality/value>The research provides solid evidence that the digital communication environment generates more ethical challenges, while it creates new ways of delivering content in corporate communications. Professional associations and organizations shall dedicate efforts in providing timely ethics training to PR professionals at all levels of leadership within and beyond corporate communications.

GREEN MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION: A CASE OF THE BULGARIAN HOTEL MARKET

This research article focuses on the ecological operation of accommodation services in Bulgaria. The aim of this article is to evaluate the application of various green management elements and measures in selected hotels in Bulgaria, namely in the cities of Sofia and Varna. The research will pay attention to the implementation of individual green measures in hotel operations as well as a comparison between hotel categories and hotels in the two cities in terms of the application of green measures. Running an environmentally friendly hotel can have several positive effects, it significantly manifests itself in the area of marketing - it creates an image, has an effect on current and prospective guests, and defines the positioning of the hotel. It also impacts the economic and operational aspects, with ecological elements having the potential to reduce hotels' operating costs. The societal impact of running hotels in an environmentally friendly fashion lies in resource conservation and ensuring environmental sustainability. This research was carried out using mixed research methods, combining semi-structured interviews with hotel management staff in Varna (n = 90) and Sofia (n = 96). The total sample of participating hotels represented 81.6% of hotels in the two cities. The interviews were complemented with a questionnaire survey, which focused on the application of environmentally friendly solutions in hotel operations. In the data analysis stage, the methods of correspondence analysis, the ANOVA test and the Kruškal-Wallis test were used. The results suggest that the higher the hotel category, the stronger the trend to use environmentally friendly methods in running hotels. The research also found that there were differences between the level at which green measures were applied in hotel operations in the two cities. The research results are applicable in practice by national professional associations that support resource conservation and thus affect the entire hospitality industry.

STAVOVI ZDRAVSTVENIH RADNIKA O EDUKACIJI U PRIMARNOJ ZDRAVSTVENOJ ZAŠTITI TIJEKOM PANDEMIJE COVID-19

Opasnost od epidemije zarazne bolesti COVID-19, Ministarstvo zdravstva proglasilo je u ožujku 2020. godine za cijelo područje Hrvatske. Rad u zdravstvu tijekom pandemije doveo je zdravstvene djelatnike u povećani stres i rizik od zaraze. Zdravstveni radnici tijekom pandemije moraju koristiti dodatnu osobnu zaštitnu opremu (OZO) kako bi se zaštitili. Cilj istraživanja bio je saznati stavove zdravstvenih djelatnika u primarnoj zdravstvenoj zaštiti o potrebi za dodatnom edukacijom o pravilnoj uporabi osobne zaštitne opreme. Istraživanje je provedeno od listopada 2020. do siječnja 202!. godine. Odgovori su prikupljeni on-line upitnikom. Obavijest o istraživanju poslana je zdravstvenim djelatnicima na e-mail putem stručnih društava u zdravstvu. Upitnik je ispunilo !84 zdravstvenih djelatnika. Najveća skupina ispitanika bili su liječnici (N=!46;79,3 %). Dodatne poslove zbog cOviD-19 bolesti obavljalo je 110 (59,8 %) ispitanika. Med strok signu dodatne poslove naveli su rad na trijaži, dežurstva u COVID ambulantama, uzimanje briseva, pregled pacijenata s pozitivnim SARS-CoV-2 nalazom, telefonska dežurstva i informacije za pacijente te uzimanje epidemiološke anamneze kao i izricanje mjera samoizolacije. Edukaciju o osobnoj zaštitnoj opremi tijekom školovanja za sadašnje zanimanje imao je svega 71 ispitanik (38,6 %) od kojih je njih 27 odgovorilo da im je to stečeno znanje bilo dovoljno za siguran rad tijekom epidemije. Većina ispitanika (90 %) navodi da želi ići na dodatnu edukaciju o osobnoj zaštitnoj opremi. Na temelju rezultata može se zaključiti da je edukacija potrebna kako tijekom redovitog obrazovanja tako i kroz kontinuiranu medicinsku edukaciju putem stručnih društava.Alternate :The danger of the COVID-19 infectious disease epidemic was declared by the Ministry of Health in March 2020 for the entire territory of Croatia. Working in healthcare during the pandemic has put healthcare workers at increased stress and risk of infection. Healthcare workers must use additional personal protective equipment (PPE) during a pandemic to protect themselves from infection. The aim of the research was to find out the attitudes of health care workers in primary health care about the need for additional education on the proper use of personal protective equipment. The survey was conducted from October2020 to January 2021. Responses were collected through an online questionnaire. Notice of the study was sent to healthcare professionals by e-mail through healthcare professional societies. The questionnaire was completed by 184 health professionals. The largest group of subjects were physicians N = 146;79.3%). Additional jobs due to COVID-19 disease were performed by 110 (59.8%) respondents. Additional tasks included work on triage, on-call duty at COVID dispensaries, swabbing, examination of patients with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, telephone on-call and patient information, and taking an epidemiological history as well as imposing self-isolation measures. Only 71 respondents (38.6%) had education on personal protective equipment during training for their current occupation, of which 27 answered that this acquired knowledge was enough for them to work safely during the epidemic. The majority of respondents (90%) believe that they need additional education on personal protective equipment. Based on the results, it can be concluded that education is needed both during regular education and through continuous medical education through professional societies.

Thank You for Supporting NEHA

The article describes the gratitude demonstrated by the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to individuals that provided financial support to the organization.

Collaborative engagement of health professional associations in Ethiopia's COVID-19 response: achievements and lessons learned. (Special Issue: Special issue.)

Introduction: Effective and speedy response to a public health crisis such as the covid-19 pandemic requires collaboration. Therefore, Ethiopian health professional associations formed a scientific advisory council in March 2020 to provide collaborative technical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the national COVID-19 pandemic response. In this paper, we reflect on achievements and lessons learned in the collaborative partnership between health professional associations and the MOH in the COVID-19 response. Achievements and challenges: The scientific advisory council created a platform for coordinated communication between professional associations and the MOH, which provided technical assistance on preventive and control measures and established a web-based information repository to share credible and locally relevant COVID-19 resources to health workers. Professional associations also cooperatively provided COVID-19 training to health workers, engaged the media for public health education and advocacy, and called for better protection and support of health workers. However, the lack of institutional arrangement for collaboration, delay in implementation of recommendations, decrease in engagement of scientific advisory council members over time, and shortage of funding was observed as challenges in the collaborative engagement of professional associations. Conclusion and recommendation: The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented opportunities for a collaborative partnership between professional associations and the MOH. We believe this partnership contributed to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and saved many lives. Going forward, the partnership should be formalized to ensure effective and sustainable relationships and this partnership should be upgraded to engage professional associations in co-creating, implementing, and monitoring health policies and programs.

Has tourism gone on holiday? Analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and post-pandemic tourism behavior

The global tourism industry, estimated at about $ 1.7 trillion in 2019, was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which cancelled most vacations, closed borders and imposed strict travel conditions. In this paper we analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, both in our country and worldwide. For our analysis we used data provided by the National Institute of Statistics, Eurostat, Euromonitor International, the World Tourism Organization, the IMF and by professional associations in the field of tourism in Romania and other countries. The results of the study show that the pandemic caused an estimated loss of $ 1.3 trillion worldwide and a 74% reduction in the number of international arrivals. Moreover, the impact of the pandemic will be felt for a long time to come, both at the level of tourism operators and tourists, and some travellers will definitely change their consumer behavior when it comes to tourism. Based on these analyzes, we identified several mutations regarding the future of tourism at national and international level.