Factors Influencing Work Satisfaction and Compliance of Using Ppe among Shop Assistants during Covid-19

Objectives: The objectives of the study was to assess the level of work satisfaction, assess compliance of using PPE among shop assistants during COVID-19 and to find the factors influencing work satisfaction. Method(s): A quantitative approach with descriptive design was used for the study. Eighty samples were selected by using convenient sampling technique. The study was conducted in 4 districts of Kerala through online platform as well as through offline mediums. Result(s): From the study, it is evident that majority of the subjects (55%) were satisfied with their work at the time of COVID-19 and more than half (55%) of the samples have enough compliance with the use of PPE and only 7.5% have less compliance with the use of PPE. Demographic variables such age, relationship status, and work experience were found to be statically significant (p<0.05) with work satisfaction, and other variables did not have a significant association. Conclusion(s): This study provides a baseline for assessing the level of work satisfaction and compliance of PPE among shop assistants in selected areas. Periodic reinforcements, proper education, availability and trainings on the use of PPE can reduce the spread of Corona Virus and improve PPE compliance to an extend. Good working environment support from family and good rapport with colleagues can help to improve work satisfaction .Copyright © 2023 The Authors.

MEASURING THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF COVID-19 AND ITS TREATMENT IN PHARMACISTS.

Objective: The aim of this study is to measure the knowledge level of pharmacists working in Turkey about COVID-19 Material(s) and Method(s): The online questionnaire consisting of 16 questions in the form of true-false, developed by the authors after a comprehensive review of the literature, was delivered to pharmacists via social media and professional platforms (such as WhatsApp, Gmail, Instagram, LinkedIn) using the Google form. 364 pharmacists from all over Turkey who filled out the questionnaire were included in the study. Result and Discussion: In this study carried out in Turkey, it was determined that 99.5% of the pharmacists had good knowledge. When the factors affecting the level of knowledge of COVID-19 were examined, in our study, no relationship was found with the independent variables since the level of knowledge was homogeneously high. In the literature, it is reported that age, years of professional experience, having a master's and doctorate education are associated with better knowledge, while the length of experience is associated with the level of knowledge, while in some studies it is stated that no feature is related. However, the fact that it is a cross-sectional study creates a limitation in explaining the cause-effect relationship. Although the number of participants met the sample, it would have been desirable to have more.Copyright © 2022 University of Ankara. All rights reserved.

To Assess the Adequacy of Knowledge to Prevent COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Online Survey

Aim: To determine the level of knowledge towards COVID-19 among people. Material(s) and Method(s): A cross-sectional descriptive research design was used for the present study and was conducted among people attending Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga, Bihar, India, to assess their knowledge regarding COVID-19. A total of 461 people were recruited for this study and sample of 400 eligible people who fulfill the inclusion criteria were enrolled. Result(s): The association of socio-demographic variables of participants and their knowledge score. It shows that group (p>0.001), gender (p=0.020), education (p=0.001), marital status (p=0.001), age (p=0.020), and inhabitants (p=0.001) were significantly associated with knowledge. Majority of participants 63% having good knowledge while 33% and 1.4% having average and poor knowledge respectively regarding the corona virus pandemic. Conclusion(s): Study concluded that many people were still had average and poor knowledge on COVID-19. Higher authorities must find the ways for making people more aware on this pandemic to control its impact.Copyright © 2023, Dr. Yashwant Research Labs Pvt. Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Building Strong Employer Brand via Electronics Word-of- Mouth in the New Normal

As the world comes to terms with the changes in work and workplace in the COVID-19 period and beyond, benefits offered to the employees and electronics word-of-mouth (eWOM) play a critical role in building a strong employer brand image. The global pandemic has forced us to adopt various digital practices to meet the challenge of social distancing at work. This paper argues that eWOM will play a mediating role between employment work experience (EWE) and employer brand image. This relationship is viewed through the lens of Social Exchange Theory. The paper presents a conceptual framework with stated propositions combining the resource based view with employer branding using eWOM as an influencer to achieve competitive advantage.

Status quo and influencing factors of post-traumatic stress disorder among front-line anti-epidemic medical staff

[Background] Front-line medical staff are an important group in fighting against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and their mental health should not be ignored. [Objective] This study investigates the current situation and influencing factors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among front-line anti-epidemic medical staff during COVID-19 epidemic. [Methods] Medical staff who had participated in fighting against the COVID-19 epidemic wereselected from three grade III Class A hospitals and four grade II Class A hospitals in a city of Hubei Province by convenient sampling method in May 2020. The survey was conducted online using the Post-traumatic Stress Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) as the main survey tool to investigate current situation and characteristics of PTSD among these participants. A total of 1120 questionnaires were collected, of which 1071 were valid, and the effective rate was 95.6%. [Results] Of the 1071 participants, the average age was (32.59+/-5.21) years;the ratio of male to female was 1: 5.02;the ratio of doctor to nurse was 1:5.8;nearly 70% participants came from grade III Class A hospitals;married participants accounted for 75.4%;most of them held a bachelor degree or above (86.5%);members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) accounted for 22.9%;50.9% had junior titles;the working years were mainly 5-10 years (42.8%);more than 80.0% participants volunteered to join the front-line fight;95.1% participants received family support;43.0% participated in rescue missions;78.1% participants fought the epidemic in their own hospitals;more than 60% participants considered the workload was greater than before;34.4% participants fought in the front-line for 2-4 weeks, and 23.5% participants did for more than 6 weeks. There were 111 cases of positive PTSD syndromes (PCL-C total score >=38) with an overall positive rate of 10.4%, and the scores of reexperience [1.40 (1.00, 1.80)] and hypervigilance [1.40 (1.00, 2.00)] were higher than the score of avoidance [1.14 (1.00, 2.57)]. The results of univariate analysis revealed that PTSD occurred differently among participants grouped by age, political affiliation, working years, anti-epidemic activities location, accumulated working hours in fighting against COVID-19, having child parenting duty, voluntariness, family support, whether family members participated in front-line activities, and rescue mission assignment (P<0.05). The results of logistic regression analysis showed that the incidence rates of reporting PTSD syndromes in medical personnel aged 31-40 years (OR=0.346, 95%CI: 0.164-0.730) and aged 41 years and above (OR=0.513, 95%CI: 0.319-0.823) were lower than that in those aged 20-30 years;the incidence rates of reporting PTSD syndromes in medical staff who were CPC members (OR=0.499, 95%CI: 0.274-0.909), volunteered to participate (OR=0.584, 95%CI: 0.360-0.945), and received family support (OR=0.453, 95%CI: 0.222-0.921) were lower than those did not (P<0.05);the incidence rates of reporting PTSD syndromes among medical workers who had child parenting duty (OR=2.372, 95%CI: 1.392-4.042), whose family members participated in front-line activities (OR=1.709, 95%CI: 1.135-2.575), and who participated in rescue missions (OR=1.705, 95%CI: 1.133-2.565) were higher than those who did not (P<0.05). [Conclusion] The positive PTSD syndrome rate is 10.4% in the front-line anti-epidemic medical staff. Age, political affiliation, voluntariness, family support, having child parenting duty, with a family members participating in the fight, and rescue mission assignment are the influencing factors of PTSD.Copyright © 2021, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention. All rights reserved.

Planning and the Post-Pandemic City

The Covid-19 pandemic has left society dazed and confused. Self-evidently momentous, its multifaceted impacts upon the functioning and experience of city living have been swift and deep. This has precipitated a range of laudable research in planning, which, among other foci, has sought to examine how the disruption is amplifying inequities (Cole et al., Citation2020), improving urban environmental quality (Sharifi & Khavarian-Garmsir, Citation2020) and generating enhanced demand for public space (Sepe, Citation2021;Ugolini et al., Citation2020). The pandemic has also heightened interest in re-engaging planning with its roots in public health (Lennon, Citation2020;Scott, Citation2020). Here, an emerging strand of research is exploring how to better proof our cities from the ill-effects of future contagions (Bereitschaft & Scheller, Citation2020;Martínez & Short, Citation2021). Yet, there is another dimension to the pandemic that may have impacts which shake the very foundations of how we think cities could and should evolve. This results from the current great experiment in spatial reorganisation that stretches well beyond the requirement of social distancing. Specifically, never before in a time of peace have so many peoples' lives been so comprehensively decoupled from their places of work for such an extensive period of time. Indeed, while the effects of social distancing are immediately apparent in how we have found new ways to negotiate spaces, it is perhaps remote working that will have the longest impact on our cities. This was alluded to but not elaborated on in a recent superb editorial by Jill Grant in this journal (Grant, Citation2020). Hence, I propose in this short comment piece to extend this line of speculation.For centuries cities have pulled people into their orbit in search of employment, education and new experiences. Conventionally conceived as places of opportunity, cities are seen to thrive where a critical threshold of population and capital spawn dynamic and diverse economies and cultures, in which residents flourish in choice and convenience. Yet despite such lofty descriptions, for most cities it is employment that is the magnet and motor of urban land use that heavily influences where people live, shop and recreate. These two cardinal poles of home and work have long dictated how people flow around and use urban spaces: from school runs to restaurants;from retail to recreation. It is this spatial relationship embedded in the daily patterns of life that helps create and carry communities. But if people are no longer limited by their place or time of work, will it follow that they will choose to lumber themselves with the outsized mortgages, additional expenses and stresses of urban living?

Awareness and Practices Regarding 'Long COVID' among Employees of Selected Smart Phone Manufacturing Industries in South India

Introduction: Long COVID is a term coined for long term post COVID-19 disease complications. Touted as the 'pandemic after the pandemic' it has significant implications for employment especially on productivity and quality of worker output. Objective(s): 1. To assess the baseline knowledge among employees working in selected smart phone manufacturing companies regarding COVID-19 disease, COVID vaccination and long COVID complications. 2. To assess the prevalence of long COVID complications among the study subjects. Methodology: We followed a quantitative cross-sectional study design between May-Jun 2022 in 6 factories across South India. A semi-structured, face-validated interview schedule was administered to the employees via Google Forms. Data was analyzed using SPSS v.21. Result(s): A total of 118 employees were included in the study. Most employees were male (89.2%), between 25-30 years of age (46.3%) and had completed their Bachelor's degree (71.29%). Most had at least 1-5 years of current work experience (80.5%). Almost 55.1% of the employees had suffered from COVID-19 in the past of which 33.8% had been hospitalised. Only 42.8% of employees knew about long COVID complications and 33.1% knew of only one symptom. None of the employees had taken the booster dose of the vaccine despite 67.8% knowing that the vaccine protected against severe disease. Almost 75% of employees reported to suffer from one or more post COVID complications. Long standing fatigue (16.9%), cough and breathing difficulty (6.1%) were the most common complaints. Conclusion and recommendations: Low awareness regarding long COVID will impact health seeking behavior and increase presenteeism at the workplace. Increasing awareness regarding COVID-19 disease, vaccinations and the post COVID complications through training programmes and health education sessions will bridge the key knowledge gaps identified. Promotion of booster dose vaccination against COVID-19 for all employees will help in reducing the burden of long COVID at the workplace.

Knowledge Practice Gap Among Nurses Towards COVID-19 Patients' Dead Body Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital

COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 is a global pandemic that presents a serious challenge from many angles for healthcare professionals. The virus causes a potentially fatal disease that is easily transmitted among patients and caregivers, hence specific dead body care is required for such patients. Our study was conducted to identify knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 dead body care among hospital nursing personnel. A cross sectional survey-based study was performed involving 282 nurses who worked in COVID-19 units during data collection from July 2020 to September 2020. The online structured questionnaire was based on world health organization guidelines, institutional infection control protocols, and course material regarding emerging respiratory diseases including COVID-19. We found that work experience in the COVID-19 unit had a significant impact on knowledge and practice regarding COVID-19 dead body care. Similarly, we observed that training improved the knowledge and practice of nursing personnel regarding dead body care. Good knowledge, attitude, and practice were observed in experienced and trained nurses (p-value <0.005). No significant changes were observed with age, gender, and education qualification. Overall knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 dead body care were moderate to good. Adequate training among nurses should prevent the transmission of disease due to occupational exposure.Copyright © 2023, Science Publications. All rights reserved.

Quality management system performance under force majeure risk (COVID-19 pandemic).

Aim To assess the effectiveness of QMS implemented by "Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases" (NII KPSSZ) in 2020 and determine the impact of force majeure event (COVID-19 pandemic) on the achievement of the goals and objectives of the organization. Methods 11 QMS processes of the NII KPSSZ in 2020 were analyzed according to 98 performance criteria. The following general scientific methods were used for the assessment of QMS: analysis, synthesis, structural and systems analysis. Results The overall effectiveness of the QMS in 2020 was 83.5%, for the individual processes it varies from 57% to 100%. Achievement of target indicators in accordance with the criteria reflects the effectiveness of risk management in QMS processes. 27 criteria were added (9 of which were reformulated) as a result of the development of the system and the analysis of work experience in unusual circumstances for year 2021. At the end of 2021, QMS will be analyzed according to 117 criteria for the processes effectiveness. Conclusion The presented experience of quality management system functioning in 2020 highlights the significant roles of monitoring of the main processes and performance indicators analysis of scientific and medical organization in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Such analysis is a necessary for decision-making because it allows the organization to fulfill the obligations, maintain conditions for increasing stakeholder satisfaction, monitor risks and assess opportunities associated with the environment and objectives of the organization, and ensure compliance with the standard requirements, regulations and legislation.Copyright © 2021 Southern Mathematical Institute of VSC RAS.

Gen Z students' work-integrated learning experiences and work values

Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationship between the number of co-operative (co-op) education work terms that students completed and the importance they attach to employer and job attributes (i.e. work values). Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from a large cross-sectional survey of co-op students (N = 2,097) from one Canadian university. Findings: Of the 19 work values measured, only six were related to work experience. Whereas work experience was related to several of the least important work values, such as geographic location, it was unrelated to many of the most important work values, such as work–life balance. Further, evidence suggests that changes in work values occur when work experience is first introduced in the curriculum (e.g. first co-op work term), not at subsequent work experiences. Research limitations/implications: The findings extend the understanding of how work-integrated learning (WIL) prepares students to make decisions about their careers in the future of work and provide insights to address the challenge of scaling WIL. However, the study draws on cross-sectional data from one single Canadian university and does not explore potentially confounding factors including time itself or critical events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Practical implications: WIL educators may leverage these findings to improve their understanding of how students' work values evolve as they complete WIL experiences. They may also use insights from the study to align students' needs and employers' understandings of those needs. Originality/value: This study is the first to explore how work values might change throughout a WIL program, particularly among Gen Z students whose work values seem divergent from those of previous generations. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Fear of covid-19, stress and coping strategies among nurses during the covid-19 pandemic's second wave: A quasi-intervention study

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and its related consequences caused a higher risk of mental health problems for nurses. Hence, this study aims to reduce the level of fear and stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and promote active coping among Egyptian nurses. Method(s): This quasi-intervention study was conducted on 125 nurses working at Benha's University hospitals, who were selected by a systematic random sampling technique within the time interval of March 2021 to July 2021. The study was conducted using the fear of COVID-19 scale, the stress scale of depression, anxiety and stress scales, and the Brief (COPE) inventory scale. Result(s): The mean ages of the studied nurses were 36.70 +/- 9.50. Almost half of the studied nurses were males and married. Before the intervention, 47.2% of nurses had severe stress levels while 82.4% had a high level of fear of COVID-19. Experience years, type of department, and worries about vaccine side effects were the predictors of the fear of COVID-19. A significant difference (p =.000) was found between both mean stress and fear scores pre-intervention (15.27 +/- 5.47 and 25.56 +/- 6.13) and post-intervention (4.87 +/- 2.14 and 11.92 +/- 2.43). The most prevalent coping strategies among nurses before the intervention were self-distraction (5.03 +/- 1.53), followed by behavioral disengagement and self-blaming. However, after the intervention, religion was found to be the utmost coping mechanism (6.12 +/- 1.17), followed by positive reframing and acceptance. Conclusion(s): The majority of the nurses in the study reported a significant fear of COVID-19, and around half of the nurses had severe stress as a result. After the intervention, the stress and fear scores were reduced by half or even less. Age, longer work experience, and worries about the vaccine were the predictors of fear of COVID-19. The coping strategies used after the intervention shifted toward active coping strategies.Copyright © 2023 Omar et al.

A Cross Sectional Study of Patient Safety Attitude among Nurses Working in Teaching Hospitals in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Nurses are one of the most important personnel that plays a major role in ensuring safe and high-quality care to the patients. Their attitudes toward patient safety could affect the patient experience in the hospital setting. Contrasting evidence in the previous study on the relationship between duration of working experience with the attitude toward patient safety warranted further exploration in the current pandemic era. The purpose of this study was to determine the perception of attitude towards patient safety and other associated factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted involving nurses from selected teaching hospitals in Klang Valley, Malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic period. Data was collected using validated online Safety Attitude Questionnaires (SAQ). The target group was nurses in charge of general medical and surgical wards and was conveniently sampled. A total of 152 nurses participated and had working experience of more than 2 years (93.4%). The majority of positive responses were observed in 4 domains which were the teamwork climate, safety climate, job satisfaction, and stress recognition. The highest positive responses were found for the safety climate domain. In terms of negative responses, it was observed to be highest in the preparation of the unit management domain. However, there was no significant association between any domains with age group, gender, or working experience. In conclusion, the perception of the nurses toward patient safety attitude might be influenced by the managerial style, geographical work setting, and different job scopes. The leaders in a healthcare facility or service delivery should consider focusing on a strategy to ensure adequate management support for the medical personnel that might influence their attitude to patient safety culture in the future.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.

MEASURING THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF COVID-19 AND ITS TREATMENT IN PHARMACISTS.

Objective: The aim of this study is to measure the knowledge level of pharmacists working in Turkey about COVID-19 Material(s) and Method(s): The online questionnaire consisting of 16 questions in the form of true-false, developed by the authors after a comprehensive review of the literature, was delivered to pharmacists via social media and professional platforms (such as WhatsApp, Gmail, Instagram, LinkedIn) using the Google form. 364 pharmacists from all over Turkey who filled out the questionnaire were included in the study. Result and Discussion: In this study carried out in Turkey, it was determined that 99.5% of the pharmacists had good knowledge. When the factors affecting the level of knowledge of COVID-19 were examined, in our study, no relationship was found with the independent variables since the level of knowledge was homogeneously high. In the literature, it is reported that age, years of professional experience, having a master's and doctorate education are associated with better knowledge, while the length of experience is associated with the level of knowledge, while in some studies it is stated that no feature is related. However, the fact that it is a cross-sectional study creates a limitation in explaining the cause-effect relationship. Although the number of participants met the sample, it would have been desirable to have more.Copyright © 2022 University of Ankara. All rights reserved.

MEASURING THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF COVID-19 AND ITS TREATMENT IN PHARMACISTS.

Objective: The aim of this study is to measure the knowledge level of pharmacists working in Turkey about COVID-19 Material(s) and Method(s): The online questionnaire consisting of 16 questions in the form of true-false, developed by the authors after a comprehensive review of the literature, was delivered to pharmacists via social media and professional platforms (such as WhatsApp, Gmail, Instagram, LinkedIn) using the Google form. 364 pharmacists from all over Turkey who filled out the questionnaire were included in the study. Result and Discussion: In this study carried out in Turkey, it was determined that 99.5% of the pharmacists had good knowledge. When the factors affecting the level of knowledge of COVID-19 were examined, in our study, no relationship was found with the independent variables since the level of knowledge was homogeneously high. In the literature, it is reported that age, years of professional experience, having a master's and doctorate education are associated with better knowledge, while the length of experience is associated with the level of knowledge, while in some studies it is stated that no feature is related. However, the fact that it is a cross-sectional study creates a limitation in explaining the cause-effect relationship. Although the number of participants met the sample, it would have been desirable to have more.Copyright © 2022 University of Ankara. All rights reserved.

Assessment of Sleep Quality and Sleep Hygiene among Nursing officers during COVID pandemic in a Tertiary Care Hospital in a Southern District of Karnataka, India

Introduction: Nursing officers are one of the susceptible groups prone to have sleep disturbances, which may not only influence their own health but also affect the nursing quality and treatment process. During COVID Pandemic, because of high work demand, nurses were made to run more shifts than regular days which can be quite stressful for them. Our study was conducted to assess the sleep quality and sleep hygiene among Nursing officers during COVID pandemic andto determine the factors influencing the Sleep quality and Sleep Hygiene Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from September 2021-October 2021 among nursing officers of Kodagu district hospital attached to Kodagu Institute of Medical sciences. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire was used to assess the sleep quality, Epworth Sleepiness Scale was used to determine the presence of tendency of daytime sleepiness and Sleep hygiene index was used to assess the sleep hygiene among the respondents. Result(s): Poor sleep quality was high(70.4%) among nursing officers. A significant association (p<0.05) of poor sleep quality was found with 31-40 years age group, nuclear family, less than 10 years of work experience and >15 nights shifts per month when logistic regression was applied. Poor sleep quality was high among the nursing officers who were practicing poor sleep hygiene (79.16 %).The assessment of daytime sleepiness showed that majority of the nursing officers (94%) were unlikely to be abnormally sleepy. Conclusion(s): The prevalence of poor sleep quality was high among nurses which was done during COVID pandemic. Poor sleep quality was associated age, type of family, years of work experience and nights shifts. Recruitment of adequate number of nursing staff and scrupulously planned night shifts are needed to improve the sleep health and well being of nurses which sequentially will result in better and efficient patient care.Copyright © 2023, Institute of Medico-legal Publication. All rights reserved.

Effect of Remote Audit, Work Experience, Work Overload, Transformational Leadership, and Emotional Intelligence on Auditor Performance

The era of industrial revolution 4.0 has introduced new technology that makes all of the activities in this world change. At the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has made social distancing which make auditors must adopt technology digital to be able perform remote audit. Based on that explanation, we conducted research on the effect of remote audit, work experience, work overload, transformational leadership, and emotional intelligence on auditor performance. Our research used quantitative method, we use primary data from questionnaires that were distributed to auditors who work in Public Accounting Firms in Jabodetabek. The data analysis method used was Structural Equation Model (SEM) based on Partial Least Square (PLS) with SmartPLS 3.2.9 software. Our results showed that work experience, transformational leadership, and emotional intelligence have a significant effect on auditor work performance, while remote audit and work overload have no significant effect on auditor performance. © 2022 ACM.

Attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 and affecting factors

The COVID-19 outbreak, which was first reported in December 2019, has affected the whole world. The first case in Turkey was confirmed on March11, 2020. Healthcare workers fight at the frontline against this virus with intense infectivity and are the occupational group under the highest risk. 7.428 health workers were infected in Turkey in late April 2020. Anxiety levels of healthcare workers have increased due to this high risk exposure. The aim of this study is to examine the attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 and the affecting factors. The study is cross-sectional. The study population consists of the healthcare workers working in the province of Samsun (N = 11926). The sample size of the study was determined as 370 people within the 5% margin of error and 95% confidence interval. The study data were collected between April 1, 2020 and April 30, 2020. Questionnaires were used as a data collection tool in the study. The questionnaire consists of two parts. The first part includes descriptive questions to determine individual characteristics. The second part is the covid attitude survey created by reviewing the literature. Descriptive statistics, Student's t test and One-Way Anova were used to evaluate the data. The age distribution of the participants is 34.81 +/- 8.54. In the study, it was determined that gender, marital status, title, working year, having children or not, chronic disease status, and health and life satisfaction were the factors affecting the attitude towards Covid-19 (p <0.05). It was ascertained that the COVID-19 attitudes of women, those who were still married, midwives, those who had been working for 11-20 years, those with children, those with chronic diseases, and those with a poor health perception and life quality were more negative compared to others. COVID-19 causes especially healthcare workers to become concerned both for themselves and their relatives since it is an unrecognized infection and easily transmitted. It might be important to follow different strategies particularly for healthcare workers who are married, have children and have health problems.Copyright © 2020 Necati Ozpinar. All rights reserved.

Transition to Remote Work: Peculiarities of Social Networks Use

The COVID-19 pandemic created conditions for a change of work style when a transition from stationary to remote work became necessary. This change affected a lot of different professions and social groups. However, the pandemic will come to an end, so not all of them stay in telework mode. It is essential to notice that these two years of remote work experience led to knowing the other side of work organizing specifics and opened new horizons for virtual teams or organizations by finding additional tools in such work management. The purpose of this article is to present the results of research carried out in Lithuania concerning the working environment and social media tools for better communication and remote work management. This aspect was chosen because social media is becoming more popular and engaged in business organizations for external communication and internal environment creation to create a positive atmosphere within the organization. The combined research results indicate that employees felt more stressed in transition to remote work process and that some quite simple solutions could help manage the uncertainties and stress employees think. © 2022 IEEE.

Qualitative analysis of a community pharmacy practice transformation initiative

Objective: To evaluate practice transformation team (PTT) members' perceptions of the Flip the Pharmacy (FtP) initiative as a strategy for implementing and improving community pharmacy-based patient care. Method(s): FtP is a national 2-year practice transformation initiative for implementing enhanced patient care and medication optimization services at community pharmacies, launched in 2019 with 28 PTTs including over 500 pharmacy locations. Key informant interviews were conducted with team leads, coaches, and pharmacy champions from four PTTs that participated in the first FtP cohort. The interviews were conducted using semistructured interview guides based on the RE-AIM framework and focused on participants' experiences in the first year of FtP. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using a rapid content analysis approach. Result(s): Four leads, 8 coaches, and 8 pharmacy champions were interviewed from 4 PTTs from May to October 2021 and resulted in 10 themes: (1) community pharmacy practice experience is important when selecting coaches;(2) team readiness supports successful pharmacy practice transformation;(3) measures of patient care quality are needed;(4) payment and practice transformation opportunities happen in parallel;(5) successful practice transformation requires strategic involvement of the entire pharmacy team;(6) FtP practice transformation domains are synergistic;(7) change packages, coaching, and performance monitoring are core practice transformation supports;(8) pharmacy teams value opportunities to share and learn from each other;(9) sustaining patient care services is continuous;and (10) COVID-19 accelerated practice transformation while creating new stress points. Conclusion(s): Participants in this study perceived the FtP initiative as a helpful strategy implementing and improving community pharmacy-based patient care. Future research should explore the sustainability of the FtP initiative and similar community pharmacy practice transformation efforts.Copyright © 2022 Pharmacotherapy Publications, Inc.

Experience about workflow of standardized cabin CT scan in module hospital during the outbreak of COVID-19.

Since the outbreak of new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei in December 2019, a total of 80 424 patients have been diagnosed until March 3, 2020, which has caused significant inpact in national health and economics. Module hospital played a vital role in effectively controlling the source of infection and cutting off the transmission channels.Compared with the CT room in a conventional hospital, the cabin CT is very different in terms of infection area settings, protective isolation measures and inspection procedures. This article covers CT room design, staffing responsibilities, division of infected areas, inspection procedures, protection and disinfection, and other aspects.Copyright © 2020 by the Chinese Medical Association.