Electronic communication – such as email, text, video – are commonly used in childcare institutions. Employees are comfortable with such tools and report that there are many more benefits than drawbacks with electronic communication. There are clinical, practical, ethical and legal implications with electronic communication – most of which are positive.
Benefits: Electronic communication in general is efficient, enhances productivity, offers qualitatively good communication and respects ...
The current evidence for the effectiveness of antiviral therapies for coronavirus is not conclusive and suffers from a lack of well-designed prospective trials or observational studies. None of the interventions examined in this review can be recommended for use in patients with coronavirus. Similarly, no firm recommendations can be made for or against these interventions from a safety perspective due to a lack of conclusive evidence. Some important safety signals potentially related to ...
• Hand hygiene should be performed before handling clean linen and after handling dirty linen. (Grade B)
• All linen should be color coded according to the type of linen and clearly labelled. (Grade B)
• Water soluble bags should be used for infectious linen. (Grade B)
• Washing cycles should include a disinfection cycle. (Grade B)
• Clean and dirty linen should be stored away from each other. (Grade B)
• Nurses should receive training or engage in continuous professional development programs to develop moral resilience and relational skills that facilitate coping with moral distress. (Grade B)
• Healthcare organizations should have structures (e.g. informational resources for staff, access to ethics consultants, educational opportunities for staff) and processes in place that support individual practitioners to develop moral resilience and address cases of moral distress. (Grade B)
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The review did not include any studies that reported evidence of the effectiveness of video call interventions to address social isolation in older adults. The evidence regarding the effectiveness of video calls for outcomes of symptoms of depression was very uncertain.
Future research in this area needs to use more rigorous methods and more diverse and representative participants. Specifically, future studies should target older adults, who are demonstrably lonely or socially isolated, or ...