scholarly journals Advanced Robotics as a Support in Healthcare Organizational Response. A COVID-19 Pandemic case

2021 ◽  
pp. 084047042110424
Author(s):  
Marcin Bartosiak ◽  
Gianni Bonelli ◽  
Lorenzo Stefano Maffioli ◽  
Ugo Palaoro ◽  
Francesco Dentali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Organizational Response ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Healthcare Staff ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Advanced Robotics ◽  
The Relationship

The use of robotics is becoming widespread in healthcare. However, little is known about how robotics can affect the relationship with patients in epidemic emergency response or how it impacts clinicians in their organization and work. As a hospital responding to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic “ASST dei Sette Laghi” (A7L) in Varese, Italy, had to react quickly to protect its staff from infection while coping with high budgetary pressure as prices of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) increased rapidly. In response, it introduced six semi-autonomous robots to mediate interactions between staff and patients. Thanks to the cooperation of multiple departments, A7L implemented the solution in less than 10 weeks. It reduced risks to staff and outlay for PPE. However, the characteristics of the robots affected their perception by healthcare staff. This case study reviews critical issues faced by A7L in introducing these devices and recommendations for the path forward.

scholarly journals Relative Deprivation, Identity Politics and the Neo-Biafran Movement in Nigeria: Critical Issues of Nation-Building in a Postcolonial African State

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Remi Chukwudi Okeke
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
African State ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the linkages between relative deprivation and identity politics in a postcolonial state. It further investigates the relationship among these variables and nation-building challenges in the postcolony. It is a case study of the Nigerian state in West Africa, which typically harbours the attributes of postcoloniality and indeed, large measures of relative deprivation in her sociopolitical and economic affairs. The study is also an interrogation of the neo-Biafran agitations in Nigeria. It has been attempted in the study to offer distinctive explanations over the problematique of nation-building in the postcolonial African state of Nigeria, using relative deprivation, identity politics and the neo-Biafran movement as variables. In framing the study’s theoretical trajectories and in historicizing the background of the research, ample resort has been made to a significant range of qualitative secondary sources. A particularly salient position of the study is that it will actually be difficult to locate on the planet, any group of people whose subsequent generations (in perpetuity) would wear defeat on the war front, as part of their essential identity. Hence, relative deprivation was found to be more fundamental than identity politics in the neo-Biafran agitations in Nigeria. However, the compelling issues were found to squarely border on nation-building complications in the postcolony.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP OF EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF K3 WITH THE USE OF PPE (PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
Binarti Dwi Wahyuningsih ◽  
Lutfi Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Employee Perception ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
A Value ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The use of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) is the last choice of the method of controlling accident and occupational diseases. Nevertheless, the use of PPE discipline will be critical important for companies and employees to reduce the risk of accidents and occupational diseases. The purpose of of this research is to know the relation of employee perception about implementation of K3 with the use of personal protection equipment (PPE). The design of this research is analytic correlational with cross-sectional aproach 21-27 May 2017. The population this research was employees production unit in UPT. Balai Yasa Surabaya Gubeng. Sample were taken by total sanpling technique as much as 33 respondents. The data were collected with observation for the use of PPE and questionnaires for employee perception about implementation of K3, then tested with a statistical distribution (Crosstab) Chi-Square and are presented in tabular form. The result of the research shown of 33 respondents were 17 respondents (51,5%) who has a positive perception mostly has the use of PPE on the good level and 9 respondents (27,3%) has the use of PPE in the sufficient level. Based on this research gotten a statistical result with a value of the ρ value = 23,209 with ρ= 0,000 or ɑ < 0,05 with this it can be concluded that there is a sognificant relationship between employee perception about implementation of K3 with the use of PPE. Based on this research are expected employees to improve discipline in the use of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) in complete especially the use of mask and gloves

Multi-Layers of Information Security in Emergency Response

2013 ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Dan Harnesk ◽  
Heidi Hartikainen
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Action Network ◽  
Emergency Actions ◽  
The Relationship

This paper draws on the socio-technical research tradition in information systems to re-conceptualize the information security in emergency response. A conceptual basis encompassing the three layers—technical, cognitive, and organizational—is developed by synthesizing Actor Network Theory and Theory of Organizational Routines. This paper makes the assumption that the emergency response context is built on the relationship between association and connectivity, which continuously shapes the emergency action network and its routines. Empirically, the analysis is based on a single case study conducted across three emergency departments. The data thus collected on information security, emergency department routines, and emergency actions is used to theorize specifically on the association/connectivity relationship. The resultant findings point to the fact that information security layers have a meaning in emergency response that is different from mainstream definitions of information security.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP OF EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF K3 WITH THE USE OF PPE (PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
Binarti Dwi Wahyuningsih ◽  
Lutfi Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Employee Perception ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
A Value ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The use of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) is the last choice of the method of controlling accident and occupational diseases. Nevertheless, the use of PPE discipline will be critical important for companies and employees to reduce the risk of accidents and occupational diseases. The purpose of of this research is to know the relation of employee perception about implementation of K3 with the use of personal protection equipment (PPE). The design of this research is analytic correlational with cross-sectional aproach 21-27 May 2017. The population this research was employees production unit in UPT. Balai Yasa Surabaya Gubeng. Sample were taken by total sanpling technique as much as 33 respondents. The data were collected with observation for the use of PPE and questionnaires for employee perception about implementation of K3, then tested with a statistical distribution (Crosstab) Chi-Square and are presented in tabular form. The result of the research shown of 33 respondents were 17 respondents (51,5%) who has a positive perception mostly has the use of PPE on the good level and 9 respondents (27,3%) has the use of PPE in the sufficient level. Based on this research gotten a statistical result with a value of the ρ value = 23,209 with ρ= 0,000 or ɑ < 0,05 with this it can be concluded that there is a sognificant relationship between employee perception about implementation of K3 with the use of PPE. Based on this research are expected employees to improve discipline in the use of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) in complete especially the use of mask and gloves

Multi-Layers of Information Security in Emergency Response

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Dan Harnesk ◽  
Heidi Hartikainen
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Action Network ◽  
Emergency Actions ◽  
The Relationship

This paper draws on the socio-technical research tradition in information systems to re-conceptualize the information security in emergency response. A conceptual basis encompassing the three layers—technical, cognitive, and organizational—is developed by synthesizing Actor Network Theory and Theory of Organizational Routines. This paper makes the assumption that the emergency response context is built on the relationship between association and connectivity, which continuously shapes the emergency action network and its routines. Empirically, the analysis is based on a single case study conducted across three emergency departments. The data thus collected on information security, emergency department routines, and emergency actions is used to theorize specifically on the association/connectivity relationship. The resultant findings point to the fact that information security layers have a meaning in emergency response that is different from mainstream definitions of information security.

scholarly journals Planning and Setting Up of a Communication Program for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Challenges and Potential Solutions in Resource Constrained Setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samridhi Nanda ◽  
Sudip Kumar Datta ◽  
Prem Sagar ◽  
Mona Sharma ◽  
Ranjan Gupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Time ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Healthcare Staff ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
Recent Onset ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
The Family

Abstract Background The recent onset of COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated many patients to be hospitalized in the COVID-19 treating centers. Owing to the need for isolation of these patients and minimizing the risk of transmission to healthy people, COVID-19-positive patients are completely restricted from meeting their friends and families. This gives rise to anxiety amongst the patients' relatives as they are not able to monitor the progress of the patients and have to depend entirely on the healthcare staff for any updates regarding the patient. In contrast, the treating doctors are undergoing severe stress due to the unknown nature of the virus and the risks involved in treating patients. They are thoroughly exhausted after the long hours donning the personal protection equipment (PPE). Objective To structure and form an interface for communication between the treating physician and the families, as a “communication team,” to decrease the workload on the treating physicians and minimize their contact time in a COVID-19 setting. Results The addition of a communication team improved the physicians' efficiency of patient management and family satisfaction. Several challenges were faced during the setting up of this interface effectively. However, most of these were dealt with along the way. The communication team was instrumental in allaying the anxiety of the family with respect to their patients' clinical condition. This also ensured engagement of doctors from non-clinical and laboratory-based departments in the COVID-19 treatment process. Conclusion Adding up a communication team for communicating clinical updates to the family in a resource-limited scenario greatly improved communication and thus family satisfaction of the COVID-19-positive patients.

scholarly journals The Effect Of Using Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), Mileage, And Smoking Habits On Hair Lead (Pb) Levels

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
Devyana Dyah Wulandari ◽  
Wardah Rohmah ◽  
Ersalina Nidianti ◽  
Andreas Putro Ragil Santoso ◽  
Ary Andini
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Smoking Habit ◽  
Smoking Habits ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
Lead Levels ◽  
Aas Method ◽  
Male University Students ◽  
The Relationship

Street sweepers, traffic officers, roadside sellers and motorcyclists, including students are subjects who are vulnerable to exposure to vehicle fumes. One of the air pollution generated from motor vehicle fumes is lead (Pb) which is toxic to humans and is accumulative. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between characteristic factors and lead levels in hair using the Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) method. Respondents in this study were 32 male university students. The results showed a significance value of 0.274 (p> 0.05) on the parameter of PPE use, 0.049 (p <0.05) on the mileage parameter, and 0.576 (p> 0.05) on the smoking habit parameter. So it can be concluded that there is no effect of the use of PPE and smoking habits on hair lead levels and there is an effect of mileage on hair lead levels in student respondents.

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