Overcoming Adversity:The Severe COVID-19 Illness Experience

This viral outbreak of the novel SARS-CoV-2 has profoundly disrupted lives globally and has placed unparalleled burdens on individual physical and psychological health.It is imperative to comprehend the psychological journey of COVID-19 patients to provide them with effective care.This study aimed to explore the psychological illness experience of severe COVID-19 survivors from the first symptoms,to hospitalization,recovery,and post-discharge adjustment.Semi-structured interviews were conducted from November 2022 to April 2023,with 30 Romanian former COVID-19 patients.Thematic analysis of transcribed interviews identified four major themes:(1)a distant threat;(2)the tipping point;(3)the turning point;and(4)readjustment and growth.Some participants faced denial or uncertainty early on,misattributing symptoms and delaying seeking care.Hospitalization as a last resort brought anxiety,isolation,and closer confrontations with mortality perception.As symptoms improved,and participants received supportive care from both healthcare professionals and family members,hope and optimism appeared.Despite health improvements and feelings of safety,lingering anxiety persisted.Post-discharge adjustment involved managing lasting effects and selectively resuming activities.For some of the participants,reflection afterward prompted greater self-understanding,empathy and connection,and motivation for self-care.The results have implications for healthcare practitioners,policymakers,and researchers.

Mixed Expectations in the Recruitment Settlement during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Newly Employed Nurses in Oman

Introduction: Hospital nurses’ recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge for the hospital, the staff themselves and for their families & relatives. Although the world has undergone different pandemics and disasters, the literature has shown that the new nurses still face uncertainty in dealing with health emergencies and disasters that impose significant stress on their performance at work. The situation in Oman is not different and little is known about the newly employed nurses’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: The qualitative study was designed to include face to face interviews of the newly employed nurses between May and December 2020 at the biggest tertiary hospital in Muscat, the capital of Oman to explore their experiences and how they confronted the COVID-19 pandemic challenges during their internship period. Result: The data was analyzed through qualitative manifest content analysis and disclosed different experiences which were framed into four contexts: Introductory Nurses Plan, Hospital Environment, Nurses Characters and Nurses Families & Relatives. The negative experiences were mainly related to the intense internship requirements, non-availability of the preceptors, hospital environment and COVID-19 circumstances. On the other hand, the positive experiences were mainly related to their self-motivation, recruitment satisfaction, and family encouragement and support. Conclusion: Clear nurses’ lack of knowledge towards COVID-19 pandemic was disclosed and associated with mixed emotional insights towards themselves, their families and relatives, their preceptors and towards the hospital environment including their preparatory plan. The study identified the nurses’ stressors and motivators that could be addressed with a clear need for preparatory adjustments to support newly employed nurses in future appointments with a lot of involvements shared responsibilities and implications.

Psychological experience of infected individuals during the pandemic: A qualitative meta-synthesis

The purpose of this review is to integrate the psychological experience of infected individuals during the pandemic.The spread of the pandemic has led to psychological and emotional impacts on patients.A qualitative synthesis is needed to identify,appraise,and integrate the available qualitative findings to provide an evidence for the development of interventions.A meta-aggregation approach was used to analyze studies published in English from January 2020 to August 2021.The JBI Qualitative Assessment and Review Instrument was used to assess the methodological quality of included studies.The ConQual system was used to establish the dependability and credibility in the synthesized findings.Six phenomenological studies and one narrative inquiry with an overall quality score of 70%-100% were included.The research findings from 87 participants in eligible studies were aggregated into three categories based on similarity of meaning.Two synthesized findings were generated and rated as moderate based on the ConQual score.The synthesized findings suggested that participants had psychological distress such as fear,anxiety,loneliness,and uncertainty,but they accepted the fact of being infected and tried to adjust themselves using some self-coping strategies,such as diverting attention from disease,seeking help from professional counselors,relying on religious beliefs,and participating in religious activities.They would like to learn more about infections and diseases and needed more informational support from health-care professionals.They were looking forward to recovery from the disease.

International Cooperation and Human Rights Protection in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic

The protection of human rights through international cooperation has a long history.Core human rights conventions,regional human rights treaties and other human rights instruments have continuously developed the meaning and scope of international human rights cooperation.The modern risk-laden society with a high degree of complexity and uncertainty has changed the world pattern,which calls for the building of a community with a shared future for human beings with cooperation as the starting point.Under the constant threat of the novel coronavirus,we must continue to deepen the concept of a community with a shared future for human beings,adhere to a“human rights-oriented”approach,and pay particular attention to the current supply and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine as an important global public good.Only through solidarity and cooperation can mankind finally win the battle against this pandemic and protect human rights.

Front Line Health Workers’ COVID-19 Lived Experiences: A Case of Levy Mwanawasa Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia

Introduction: Frontline health workers who work in COVID-19 isolation treatment centers are susceptible to developing mental health issues due to the overwhelming workload and stress associated with their job. Thus understanding their lived experiences provides insights that helps alleviate health worker burnout and improving their quality of life thereby leading to an efficient delivery of health care services during a pandemic. Aim: To understand the lived experiences of front line health workers during the COVID-19 pandemics at Levy Mwanawasa Teaching University Hospital. Design and Methods: A qualitative interpretative phenomenological study design was used. Purposive sampling method was adopted to select the 14 participants who took part in the study. The data were collected through face-to-face, audio-taped interviews using an in-depth interview guide, after which the responses were transcribed verbatim before using NVIVO to generate codes. The data were analyzed using thematic method. Results: The lived experiences of the participants were found to be mainly negative with few positive experiences. Their lived experiences were mainly negative emotional and psychological experiences including fear, anger, depression, frustration, anxiety and sadness. The thoughts that were identified included thoughts of surviving through the pandemic, thoughts of getting infected, and dying. The frontline health workers also experienced some personal and professional changes as they offered health services in the COVID-19 wards. The personal changes reported included;social limitations and collapse of extra income business while the professional changes included a change in the way health services were delivered, a gain in knowledge and skills and shaping of a career path. The main challenges experienced were limited resources (man power, resuscitation equipment, drugs, personal protective equipment), limited literature on the disease and limited social interactions. Conclusion and Recommendations: Relevant stakeholders should come on board in order to offer support during a pandemic or a similar situation so as to better the experience of frontline health workers with particular attention directed towards the provision of adequate resources to enable them deliver their services effectively. Frontline health workers perspectives and opinions should be taken into account by the institution’s administrators and policymakers when planning for and managing a pandemic.

Graduating Nurses in the Time of COVID-19

Nursing has been a leader in online education for more than two decades. Nursing students have taken advantage of the flexible scheduling and variety of online nursing programs to pursue their education due to distance, family, or work demands;however, since the outbreak of COVID-19, nursing schools in the United States have adapted by implementing an online alternative to assess students’ clinical skills required to graduate. Nursing faculty have been forced into this new learning culture, navigating the online landscape, learning new technologies and teaching methods, and adapting to clinical social distance education. Nursing is a performance-based profession in which the clinical learning environment plays an important role in developing skills and professional abilities. The purpose of this evidence-based teaching project is to, based on National League for Nursing (NLN), not only contribute to improvement but ensure educational quality for undergraduate nursing students by examining how online simulation compared to clinical experience with an actual patient, affects nurses’ clinical competence. Therefore, after reviewing 14 peer-reviewed articles, evidence shows benefits for undergraduate nursing students to retain better clinical competence when virtual simulation and clinical sites are combined;however, further research is recommended. Articles were selected as the evidence base for this project, following specific inclusion criteria. Inclusion criteria for evidence were articles within six years, including undergraduate nurse students with online clinical education;the exclusion criteria were studies including graduate nurse students and articles older than six years. Based on the project’s outcome, it is suggested that a nurse residency should follow online simulations to complete clinical hours. .

Perceptions and Experiences of Adult Learners of Online Learning in the Era of COVID-19 in Ghana

The COVID-19 Pandemic has undoubtedly affected learners,and as such,adjustments need to be made for successful teaching and learning through online learning.However,in Ghana,the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic did not spare adult learners who are compelled by educational reforms to upgrade themselves academically using online learning platforms.Using a descriptive design,the study explored the perceptions and experiences of 166(online data collection)adult learners as they pursue their academic programs through online learning.An adapted questionnaire on perceptions and online learning experiences developed by Khan,Nabi,Khojah,and Tahir(2021)was used for the data collection.The Confirmatory Factor Analysis technique was used to analyse the data.The study revealed that respondents felt confident while using online learning content but refuted that those technologies permit them to take tests and submit assignments electronically.Furthermore,the study revealed that online learning service was making the learning process very simplified.The revelation means that adult learners possess positive experiences and perceptions about online learning.Therefore,online teaching and learning in higher education institutions should be made a routine activity in Ghana even after the COVID-19 Pandemic because the world is approaching a technological world.

The Three-dimensional Model of “ConstructionTranslation-Communication” for the Construction of a Human Rights Discourse System with Chinese Characteristics in the Post-pandemic Era

Human rights have always been the focus of disputes between China and the West. To make a better China story about human rights and enhance China’s international discourse power in the field of human rights, we propose the text construction, translation and communication path of the construction of the human rights discourse system with Chinese characteristics from the cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on the examples of prevention and control of the CoVID-19 pandemic under the concept of putting people first, mainstream diplomatic linguistic data relevant to the fight against the novel coronavirus was collected through the internet. The human rights discourse with Chinese characteristics is constructed through a variety of texts focusing on putting the people first, the right to life, the right to health, the right to information, the right to privacy, the right to work and a sense of a community with a shared future for human beings. The core concepts of human rights have experienced the deepening process of decontextualization, abstraction and theorization to gradually conform to the expression habits of international audiences. The international communication effect is mainly positive in civil society. It shows that the construction of China’s human rights discourse system and the governance of international human rights discourse have achieved preliminary results. To enhance China’s discourse power on human rights, we need to add an interdisciplinary approach.

Human Rights Protection and Global Action under the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic——Overview of“2021·China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights”

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest ever infectious disease facing mankind.It challenges national governance capabilities and international patterns.On June 8,2021,the“2021 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights”was held in Chongqing,China.Its theme was“COVID-19 Pandemic and the Protection of the Right to Life and Health,”which focused on five topics:the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the protection of the rights to life and health,the response of countries against the pandemic,the protection of the right to life and health of specific groups during the pandemic response,the national responsibility for the protection of the right to life and health in the public health crisis,and global cooperation in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic.The conference reached two consensuses:First,in the face of the pandemic,countries must take responsibility for the people and protect the people’s right to life and health;second,an effective international mechanism for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic must be established as soon as possible.

Problems-Based Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences by Nursing Students

Introduction: Problems-based learning (PBL) methodology seeks challenges in the daily life context, where students protagonise their own learning using new technologies as the ideal means to find updated and adequate information, for its processing and dissemination towards a better active and participative role. The aim was to analyze the usefulness and importance of PBL, as a strategy of significant learning in daily experiences of nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: The study was qualitative and phenomenological, with 15 informant students of the Module “Attention to addictions in the health area” aged 20 - 25 years, enrolled in the sixth semester of nursing from a public university. Data were collected through oral testimonies, texts, and semi-structured interviews of relevant aspects to them in their everyday life facing the COVID-19 pandemic, telling their experiences. Students signed an informed consent, and the qualitative analysis followed De Souza Minayo. Results: Four categories emerged: Category 1. Students’ experiences along pandemic;1.1, Positive experiences;1.2, Negative experiences. Category 2. Students’ knowledge and abilities for self-care along pandemic. Category 3. Abilities to promote problem solving. Category 4. Impact and usefulness of PBL in students’ experiences for health education;4.1, Positive impact of PBL;4.2 Negative impact of PBL. Conclusion: PBL is very useful for significant learning. It opens knowledge, developing skills to face, support, debate, evaluate and make decisions;it does incorporate critical thinking and problem solving. PBL does encourage collaborative work.

Impacts of COVID-19 on tourism and management response from Banff National Park,Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to the tourism sector globally.We investigated changes in visitor demographics,satisfaction level,and its determinants pre-and peri-COVID-19.Data were collected using questionnaire surveys in 2019 and 2021 within Banff National Park(BNP).The data analyses were based on a sample size of 1183 respondents by conducting factor analysis,correlation analysis and stepwise regression analysis.Results highlight that there were fewer international visitors and more local and domestic visitors during the pandemic.Park attributes were evaluated at a higher satisfaction level peri-COVID-19.The quality of the Park facilities and services were the most important satisfaction determinants pre-and peri-COVID-19,and all the Park COVID-19 measures and actions received positive experience from visitors.This research fills this knowledge gap by developing a better understanding in the change of visitor demographics and satisfaction level in BNP under the context of the pandemic.It also provides implication for both scholars and practitioners to understand the impacts of the pandemic on Park visitation.The study can provide insights for utilizing the pandemic as a transformative strength and for mitigating its negative impact on tourism industry.

Undergraduate nursing students’experiences of online learning:gaining access in resource-limited circumstances

Background:In response to the need to mitigate the increase in Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19)cases,nursing students undertake online learning in almost all nursing education institutions in Indonesia.These students face distinctive learning experiences,which have not yet been identified in the Indonesian context.This study aimed to explore students’experiences of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods:We used a descriptive exploratory design.Eleven students from three nursing education institutions in Indonesia were interviewed through telephone calls or video conference applications.Results:One main theme,Gaining access in resource-limited circumstances,was developed to describe students’experience of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.This theme was supported by five subthemes:struggling for internet connection;becoming familiar with the applications;flexibility;supported by others;and dealing with limitations.Conclusions:This current study provides insights into what support should be provided for nursing students to manage limitations in the online learning process.

直升机消防吊桶姿态模拟试验研究

为量化研究直升机消防吊桶灭火过程中消防吊桶姿态对洒水精准度及直升机稳定性的影响,搭建直升机消防吊桶姿态试验平台开展消防吊桶缩尺寸试验。开展来流速度、质量、绳索长度、加装尾鳍4种因素影响下直升机消防吊桶摆动试验,利用以姿态传感器和拉力传感器为核心的数据采集系统采集试验过程中消防吊桶的姿态角和绳索垂直方向的受力。结果表明:来流速度为8、16、24 m/s时姿态角变化极差为7.85°、20.40°、34.84°,绳索垂直方向受力极大值与自身重力之差为0.18、1.13、2.29 N;质量为301、271、241 g时,姿态角变化极差为17.45°、20.40°、38.27°,绳索垂直方向受力极大值与自身重力之差为0.95、1.13、1.17 N;绳索长度为100、150、200 mm时,姿态角变化极差为22.41°、20.40°、19.61°,绳索垂直方向受力极大值与自身重力之差为1.93、1.79、1.56 N;正交试验分析得出不同工况的影响因素大小为来流速度>绳索长度>质量,其中来流速度对试验结果影响极显著(P<0.01);直升机消防吊桶是否加装尾鳍的姿态角变化极差为15.78°、55.76°,绳索垂直方向受力极大值与自身重力之差为0.64、1.06 N。综上,降低来流速度、增加消防吊桶质量、增加绳索长度及加装尾鳍可有效降低消防吊桶姿态变化幅度,提高垂直方向受力的均匀性,从而优化洒水精度和直升机稳定性。

党的十八大以来党坚持发扬斗争精神的重要成就和主要经验

党的十八大以来,中国共产党坚持发扬斗争精神取得了重要成就。理论成果体现为习近平总书记关于发扬斗争精神的重要论述对马克思主义建党学说作出的原创性贡献:不仅赋予了斗争精神以新的时代内涵,还明确了新时代发扬斗争精神在实现中华民族伟大复兴中的战略地位,并对全体党员尤其是党员干部如何发扬斗争精神提出了明确要求。实践成就主要体现为三个方面。一是在自我革命领域发扬斗争精神,全面从严治党取得非凡成就:经过坚决斗争,党中央集中统一领导得到加强,反腐败斗争取得压倒性胜利并得到全面巩固;通过加强思想淬炼、斗争实践历练和完善激励机制,领导干部的斗争精神得到强化。二是在伟大社会革命中发扬斗争精神,推动改革开放和社会主义现代化建设取得历史性成就,尤其是在经济领域、意识形态领域和生态文明领域的斗争取得了突出成就。三是在国防外交领域发扬斗争精神,我国国家安全得到全面加强、国家利益得到坚决维护。党坚持发扬斗争精神的基本经验主要包括:发扬斗争精神必须发挥斗争主体的历史主动性,抓住领导干部“关键少数”;发扬斗争精神必须坚持斗争目的的正义性,合作、共赢、发展才是目的;发扬斗争精神必须坚持斗争的方向性,坚持以党的创新理论为科学指引;发扬斗争精神必须坚持斗争的策略性,掌握正确的斗争方法和斗争艺术。

直升机在扑救雷击火中的应用——以蒙山“6·10”雷击火为例

直升机灭火作为一种高效、快速、安全的灭火手段,在扑救雷击火方面具有不可替代的作用。以蒙山“6·10”雷击火扑救作为切入点,通过“案例分析法”,对火情处置情况、直升机调机情况、直升机扑救情况进行分析,总结扑救经验,找出存在的问题和短板,并提出相应的对策建议。

Fighting against the common enemy of COVID-19: a practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)has caused more than 80813 confirmed cases in all provinces of China,and 21110 cases reported in 93 countries of six continents as of 7 March 2020 since middle December 2019.Due to biological nature of the novel coronavirus,named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)with faster spreading and unknown transmission pattern,it makes us in a difficulty position to contain the disease transmission globally.To date,we have found it is one of the greatest challenges to human beings in fighting against COVID-19 in the history,because SARS-CoV-2 is different from SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV in terms of biological features and transmissibility,and also found the containment strategies including the non-pharmaceutical public health measures implemented in China are effective and successful.In order to prevent a potential pandemic-level outbreak of COVID-19,we,as a community of shared future for mankind,recommend for all international leaders to support preparedness in low and middle income countries especially,take strong global interventions by using old approaches or new tools,mobilize global resources to equip hospital facilities and supplies to protect noisome infections and to provide personal protective tools such as facemask to general population,and quickly initiate research projects on drug and vaccine development.We also recommend for the international community to develop better coordination,cooperation,and strong solidarity in the joint efforts of fighting against COVID-19 spreading recommended by the joint mission report of the WHO-China experts,against violating the International Health Regulation(WHO,2005),and against stigmatization,in order to eventually win the battle against our common enemy—COVID-19.

Leonardo 500 Years: Digital Experiences in Milan, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

The object of this study is the impact of technology in four exhibitions held to celebrate the 500 years of the death of Leonardo da Vinci on 2019.Two exhibitions took place in Milan,Italy,one took place in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil and the last one took place in São Paulo,also in Brazil.This study aims to explore the empirical evidences found during the field research in three of the four exhibitions object of this study(one of the exhibitions could not be observed to the museum being closed as a result of the pandemic caused by the coronavirus).This study is based on references and recent secondary researches that analyzed the aspects of quantity and quality in exhibitions sites,and also on other data available on websites and in the media.This study aims to question the importance of the original work in digital exhibitions and a possibly a further extension on the word“experience”not specifically through technological immersion.Lastly,these subjects are revisited once we look at the museums amid the world pandemic.

新冠疫情下留学生智慧教学模式的探索——以大学物理实验为例

近年来,由于全球新冠疫情的影响,造成部分国外留学生无法正常来华求学.基于此,西南科技大学物理实验教学中心通过结合各种教育信息化手段,如网络视频教学、线上师生互动、虚拟仿真实验,探索了“现实平台、虚拟平台、交互平台相互融合”的智慧教学模式在留学生大学物理实验课堂上的应用,解决了本科留学生不能正常完成线下实验课程的问题,同时也让留学生对实验内容的物理本质有了更深入、更全面的理解.

养老机构常态化疫情防控体系:国际经验及其启示

目的:通过分析并借鉴国际养老机构疫情防控经验,完善我国养老机构疫情防控体系。方法:在PubMed、Web of Science和Embase进行系统检索,使用质性元分析法通过规范化的文献选取和整合编码技术聚合多篇养老机构疫情防控研究的共性结论,对疫情防控体系形成系统性认识。结果:基于32个研究,系统分析了养老机构内外联动的疫情防控体系。内部防控体系包括高层管理者和医护人员组成的疫情防控组织体系、感染监控与临床护理等疫情防控运行体系、资源协调与员工培训等疫情防控保障体系。外部联动体系包括养老机构与流动多学科团队协作的线下联动体系、多主体的线上联动体系、基于网络平台的线下线上协同联动体系。结论:养老机构应从组织、运行、保障层面建立系统的内部疫情防控体系,同时立足多主体线下线上联动,建立外部联动体系。本研究丰富和深化理论上对养老机构疫情防控体系的认识,对于推动我国养老机构的疫情防控实践有现实意义。

沉浸式体验旅游驱动博物馆创新发展路径研究——以青岛啤酒博物馆《觉醒的酿造师》为例

博物馆旅游成为后疫情时代城市近郊旅游的热门项目,博物馆旅游的体验产品也由原来的展览及文创产品业态创新转换为沉浸式展览、5D影院、沉浸式演艺等多种业态。该文以博物馆沉浸式实景剧游的创新方向和形式在青岛啤酒博物馆项目中的验证为例,国家一级博物馆的沉浸式实景剧游《觉醒的酿造师》,其围绕超震撼惊叹的场景搭建、高度共鸣的叙事主线、五感皆具的体验度、多元互动的演绎代入感不断寻求内容创新、技术创新、场景创新、体验创新、营销创新及快速的迭代创新,不仅打破体制机制的限制创造了合作共赢,更是走出了博物馆创新发展的新路径,最大程度地实现博物馆的文化价值、社会价值。