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Background: Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the overall healthcare system. Healthcare workers are an essential workforce during a pandemic as they have been involved in treating patients with COVID-19. They have been exposed to detrimental effects such as high infection and death rates, chronic stress, and fear of uncertainty. Their adaptability in providing care and maintaining psychological equilibrium under unprecedented crises like COVID-19 is poorly understood. Objectives: This study aimed to explore the lived experiences and resilience of hospital pharmacists in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted among hospital pharmacists in Metro Manila, Philippines. In-depth interviews were conducted virtually using a semi-structured topic guide. Interview transcripts were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results: The two themes that emerged from the data were challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resilience of hospital pharmacists. Under challenges, it was subdivided into workplace and personal challenges. As for resilience, it was composed of positive coping mechanisms and positive outlooks of hospital pharmacists. Conclusions: Hospital pharmacists faced many challenges and learned to adapt to the continued impact of the pandemic. Hospitals are encouraged to implement measures to prepare for future public health crises and provide resources for both physical and mental health meant for hospital pharmacists.

Surface elastic instabilities, such as wrinkling and creasing, can enable a convenient strategy to impart reversible patterned topography to a surface. Here the classic system of a stiff layer on a soft substrate is focused, which famously produces parallel harmonic wrinkles at modest uniaxial compression that period-double repeatedly at higher compressions and ultimately evolve into deep folds and creases. By introducing micrometer-scale planar Bravais lattice holes to spatially pattern the substrate, these instabilities are guided into a wide variety of different patterns, including wrinkling in parallel bands and star shape bands, and radically reduce the threshold compression. The experimental patterns and thresholds are enabled to understand by considering a simple plane-strain model for the patterned substrate-deformation, decorated by wrinkling on the stiff surface layer. The experiments also show localized wrinkle-crease transitions at modest compression, yielding a hierarchical surface with different generations of instability mixed together. By varying the geometrical inputs, control over the stepwise evolution of surface morphologies is demonstrated. These results demonstrate considerable control over both the patterns and threshold of the surface elastic instabilities, and have relevance to many emerging applications of morphing surfaces, including in wearable/flexible electronics, biomedical systems, and optical devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]