Accompaniment Methodology of Open Innovation in Local Universities After COVID-19

Innovation has never been as important as it is now to solve the problems caused by COVID-19 and the socioeconomic crisis. In this context, and within the framework of an economy based on knowledge and change, economic and social agents need open innovation to generate competitiveness and development. For their part, universities need to increase technological production as a source of innovation. In the literature there are models of innovation, but they do not present a method to move from basic to technological research. Aim of this work was to fill, in part, this gap. Under the qualitative approach, the Open Innovation model, the Technological Maturity Levels method and the Pedagogical Accompaniment model were selected to develop a post-COVID-19 route to intensify innovation. The article contributes to knowledge with a methodology that allows expanding the performance of researchers and raising the technological level of universities towards competitiveness. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Analysis of experiences about Covid-19 in the Latin American context through grounded theory

This work aims to describe and analyze, through Grounded Theory, the experiences of the management of covid-19 in people in Latin America who suffered from the disease or were in the process of mourning because of it. The analysis units were open and semi-structured interviews via Zoom with ten people from seven Latin American countries who had experienced covid-19. For the analysis of the interviews, the Atlas.ti software was used. The results show the emergence of a substantive theory on the management of covid in four aspects: knowledge of the disease;accompaniment in illness and grief;exercise of spirituality;and coping strategies. It is concluded that the management of covid-19 involves both psychospiritual and social and economic aspects.

A qualitative exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped experiences of self-managed medication abortion with accompaniment group support in Argentina, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela.

Globally, people self-manage their medication abortions without clinical assistance. Feminist activist collectives (accompaniment groups) support people through self-managed abortion with evidence-based guidance. We sought to understand the impact of COVID-19 and related restrictions on the need for and experiences of self-managed abortion with accompaniment support across varied legal and social contexts. Between May and October 2020, we conducted in-depth interviews with individuals who self-managed abortions with support from accompaniment groups during the pandemic in Argentina, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela. We conducted a thematic analysis to understand the impact of COVID-19 on participants' experiences with accompanied self-managed abortions. Across 43 in-depth interviews, participants in all four countries described how the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges at each step of their abortion process, from confirming the pregnancy, accessing abortion pills, finding a private, comfortable place, and verifying abortion completion. For most people, conditions related to the pandemic made it harder to self-manage an abortion; for a minority, being at home made aspects of the experience somewhat easier. Nonetheless, all participants reported feeling supported by accompaniment groups, and COVID-19 and related lockdowns reinforced their preference for accompaniment-supported self-managed abortion. These findings highlight the essential role that accompaniment groups play in ensuring access to high-quality abortion care in a multiplicity of settings, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts are needed to expand the reach of accompaniment groups to increase access to the high-quality abortion support they provide, filling a critical gap left by health systems and legal infrastructure.

On Love, Dying Alone, and Community.

This paper examines the problem of dying alone in the context of no-visitors hospital policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It critically analyses a rights-based solution, offering a democratized visitors policy alternative, premised on the value of legal justice. While an inclusive, participatory, and thoroughly justified visitors' policy, which takes into account the good of all stakeholders in the process, is indeed the right alternative to the paternalistic, top-down no-visitors policy, I argue that the democratized visitors' policy alternative ought to be grounded on reasons of both justice and love. Legal justice and claimable individual rights, though important, are limited and cannot fully capture the vicissitudes of mutual vulnerabilities and the moral stringency of duties of mutual care. In the context of suffering and death, instances of extreme vulnerability and interdependence, individual rights of autonomy and self-determination prove insufficient to meet our most basic needs for love, human presence, and accompaniment.

DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN THE TUTORING OF FACE-TO-FACE AND VIRTUAL ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR, DURING THE COVID-19

Online education has some advantages;Among others, it manages to establish new learning opportunities reaching places where conventional education is not possible, determines flexibility in schedules and establishes different teaching styles, however, these qualities are coupled with new profiles of teachers and students, so integration of work is of utmost importance to the success of the teaching and learning process. The Metropolitan University (UMET) in the current times of the Covid Pandemic, has developed a system of academic and institutional tutorials that constitute support in the process of professional training of the online student, it is a process of accompaniment and academic and institutional assistance carried out by the teacher tutor. The Tutorials are carried out using technological resources available in virtual environments (EVA Moodie Platform and Microsoft Teams) that provide communication and interaction between the student, academic and administrative staff, in a constant and assertive way. With an exploratory and descriptive analysis, it was studied if there was any difference between the face-to-face and virtual modalities, reaching the conclusion that there was a difference in affective emotional competence as a result of the covid situation.

Leininger theory development through mentoring students and community-leaders in preventing the spread of COVID-19

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic requires everyone to behave in a healthy way and prevents the spread of the virus in very simple ways such as wearing a mask, keeping a distance, preventing crowds, and washing hands and there is also a behavior to do a rapid or antigen swab if you want to leave the area, but this behavior most people have not behaved optimally to prevent the spread of the virus. The solution that can be done is a community approach with the development of the Leininger model theory carried out by the surrounding community and assistance from students using science and cultural approaches. AIM: The purpose of the study was to analyze the development of Leininger’s nursing theory model through mentoring students and community leaders in preventing the spread of COVID-19. METHODS: Research design using explanatory which aims to explain the causal relationship between variables. The research population is the community around the residence of the students of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and community leaders with a sample size of 30% of the population, the sampling technique used is proportional sampling. The instruments used were questionnaires and observations. The independent variable is the development of the Leininger model theory, while the dependent variable is the degree of public health. Variables were analyzed descriptively on each variable and then analyzed by t-test to determine the difference between the independent variable and the dependent variable with a significance level of 0.05. RESULTS: The results showed that there were differences before and after mentoring students with community leaders regarding the development of the Leinenger theory model and the degree of public health. The results of the statistical test with the results obtained sig = 0.000 < 0.05 probability means that there is a difference before and after the companion on the development of the Leinenger theory model with the degree of public health. The statistical test results obtained sig = 0.000 < 0.05 probability, which means that there is a difference in the development of Leininger’s nursing theory model with the degree of public health with the assistance of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Unusa students and community leaders in East Java. CONCLUSION: There are differences in knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and degrees of public health before and after mentoring students with community leaders to prevent the spread of COVID-19. © 2021 Nurul Kamariyah, Khamida Khamida, Siti Nurjanah, Chilyatiz Zahroh, Siti Nur Hasina, Raden, Khairiyatul Afiyah.

Pedagogical tools of alternation and sustaining schooling in Covid-19 times

The measure of school closures in the context of the pandemic caused by the SARS COV2 virus did not take into account the diversity of socioeconomic and geographic situations of families living in rural areas. Most of these families do not have a stable and quality Internet connection as a resource for continuing their children's schooling through virtuality. The objective to this article is to demonstrate that, despite the difficulties mentioned above, the pedagogical tools of alternation have allowed to support the pedagogical continuity of the students, since there was a previous experience linked to self-management and accompaniment of the families. Methodologically, we analyzed the results of a survey applied to rural alternation schools in the province of Buenos Aires to learn about what happened during the pandemic. We complemented this analysis with the coding of interviews conducted with actors linked to these schools. We conclude that it is important to consider self-management and accompaniment of families not only as a circumstantial solution for a specific moment but as part of an educational and political project for rural communities.

SPIRITUAL ACCOMPANIMENT OF PATIENTS IN PALLIATIVE CARE AFFECTED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Introduction: The spiritual impact of COVID-19 on patients in palliative care is significant. Patients in palliative care are among the most vulnerable members of society;they are isolated and worried about their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Spiritual support and care provided by the hospice/palliative team can help to overcome fear and isolation. In the Concept of Health Care in the Field of Palliative Medicine Including Hospice Care, the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic listed the tasks of palliative care, including the integration of psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care. The members of the palliative team, priests, and clerics from the church or religious society to which the patient belongs can contribute to meeting the patient's needs. The aim of the research was to find out in what form and how often a spiritual service was provided by the hospice/palliative team to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: In this research, we applied quantitative research strategies including descriptive statistics, and to respond to postulated research questions we used a non-parametric Spearman's correlation coefficient. Results: The results of this research show that approximately 80 % of hospice workers and palliative care workers who participated in our research provided spiritual care to patients in the following rates: always, often sometimes. Conclusion: The results of this research showed that hospice and palliative workers did not leave patients without spiritual care. Further and very relevant research in the field of palliative care could be aimed at the level of quality of provided spiritual care.

Loss, grief and healing: accompaniment in time of COVID-19.

This paper is a response to the recent correspondence published in this journal where the author rightly stated that need to redirect one's perception on the different realities of life such as death. This paper discusses the difficulties associated with loss, grief and healing in the time of COVID-19 pandemic. This paper further adds the importance of accompaniment to people experiencing the complicated grief process. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the way one overcome grief where the bereaved are required to grieve without the support of usual social, cultural and religious rituals.

Implementation of guidelines to integrate the caregiver as a coassistant of health-care personnel during the hospital stay of COVID-19 pediatric patients: adaptation in a Mexican public pediatric hospital.

This paper describes the experience in a public pediatric hospital when implementing the Mexican Health Ministry's recommendations on the inclusion and importance of a chosen caregiver during the hospitalization of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pediatric patient. The implementation includes the adjustments, observations, and limitations made in real practice and process. In conclusion, the value and benefits of the accompaniment of hospitalized children with COVID-19 by a primary or chosen caregiver are evidenced and supported by family-centered care. Furthermore, the recommendations mentioned result in comprehensive bio-psycho-social care for the benefit of pediatric patients.

Accompaniment to healthcare visits: the impact of sensory impairment.

BACKGROUND: Millions of older adults in the United States experience hearing, vision, and dual sensory impairment (concurring hearing and vision impairment) yet little research exists on their needs in interactions with the healthcare system. This piece aims to determine the use of accompaniment in healthcare interactions by persons with sensory impairment. METHODS: These cross-sectional analyses included data from the 2015 Medicare Current Beneficiaries Survey and survey weighting provided by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Adjusted odds of reporting accompaniment to healthcare visits and given reasons for accompaniment among United States Medicare beneficiaries with self-reported sensory impairment (hearing, vision, and dual sensory impairment) were examined. RESULTS: After excluding observations with missing data, 10,748 Medicare beneficiaries remained representing a 46 million total weighted nationally representative sample, of which 88.9% reported no sensory impairment, 5.52% reported hearing impairment, 3.56% reported vision impairment, and 0.93% reported dual sensory impairment. Those with vision impairment and dual sensory impairment had 2.139 (95% confidence interval [CI] =1.605-2.850) and 2.703 (CI = 1.549-4.718) times the odds of reporting accompaniment to healthcare visits relative to those without sensory impairment. A secondary analysis suggests communication needs as the primary reason for accompaniment among persons with hearing loss, while those with vision impairment were more likely to indicate transportation needs. CONCLUSIONS: Healthcare accompaniment is common for persons with sensory loss and healthcare systems should consider accommodations for and leveraging accompaniment to improve healthcare for persons with sensory impairments. In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, as hospitals limit visitors to reduce the spread of infection, arrangements should be made to ensure that the communication and transportation needs of those with sensory impairment are not neglected.