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Background Aim Study Design Results Conclusions Relevance to clinical practice Prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic a flexible approach to visiting was adopted by many Intensive Care Units in the United Kingdom. Due to the rapid spread globally of COVID‐19, significant policy changes were put in place, including the restriction on visitors to patients in hospital. Evidence has emerged demonstrating the negative impact of these restrictions on patients with COVID‐19, their families and the staff caring for them. However, there is limited data about the impact of these restrictions in the non‐COVID ICU environment.This study aimed to explore the experiences of staff caring for non‐COVID‐19 patients in a cardiothoracic critical care unit during the COVID‐19 pandemic.This qualitative research study adopted a grounded theory methodological approach. This methodology was used due to the unique situation, with no prior research available. We recruited healthcare staff that worked in a cardiothoracic critical care unit during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Semi structured interviews were carried out, transcribed, and analysed. Using the data collected, a theory was constructed.Interviews were carried out with 20 healthcare staff from a range of professions including nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals. Following data analysis four main categories emerged from the data: impact and implementation of visiting restrictions; the dehumanisation of patients; end‐of‐life care and witnessing distress. From these four categories, a theory has emerged suggesting that healthcare staff in a non‐covid ICU were regularly exposed to potentially moral injurious events, despite being shielded from caring for patients with COVID‐19.This study provides a theory that healthcare staff caring for non‐COVID‐19 critical care patients during the period of visiting restrictions were exposed to potentially morally injurious events.Repeated exposure to potentially morally injurious events can lead to the development of moral injury and its adverse consequences. This study highlights the need to support all staff in the post COVID era, including those who worked in a non‐COVID environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International collaborative projects can export inequalities and power dynamics across borders. The Visitor’s Hut offers transformative possibilities in knowledge recovery that advance other ways of knowing through its active, other-seeking dialogic approach. Visiting prioritizes more equitable and community-grounded ways to mitigate power imbalances in international design research, where the methodology can become the site for repair by negotiating and translating, through design. In this paper, I showcase the methodology, first theorized in my PhD thesis and further put into practice through research on weaving ecologies in Myanmar, illustrating how knowledge is dynamic, created alongside others in a shared third space between cultures, languages, and people. This ongoing decolonization discussion invites us, as academic researchers, scholars, and practitioners, to actively reflect upon ‘me’, ‘us’, and ‘them’ within different temporal dimensions, remote relations, and the increasing use of technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Espousing Indigenous Research Methods including Kîyokêwin/Visiting, beadwork as an embodied pedagogical and research practice, and storytelling, this article explores the authors' experiences working in senior academic leadership positions to support indigenization at the Royal Military College of Canada. The authors consent to learn in public and discuss opportunities for role-modeling individual leadership in institutional contexts and for building small 'safe enough' spaces that generate energy and momentum that have the possibility of supporting broader-scale indigenization efforts. The authors understand the call to indigenize education as a non-negotiable imperative, and argue that it is an ethical responsibility for all who live in Canada to engage intentionally in concrete acts of reconciliation – in (re)building relationships with Indigenous Peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International collaborative projects can export inequalities and power dynamics across borders. The Visitor’s Hut offers transformative possibilities in knowledge recovery that advance other ways of knowing through its active, other-seeking dialogic approach. Visiting prioritizes more equitable and community-grounded ways to mitigate power imbalances in international design research, where the methodology can become the site for repair by negotiating and translating, through design. In this paper, I showcase the methodology, first theorized in my PhD thesis and further put into practice through research on weaving ecologies in Myanmar, illustrating how knowledge is dynamic, created alongside others in a shared third space between cultures, languages, and people. This ongoing decolonization discussion invites us, as academic researchers, scholars, and practitioners, to actively reflect upon ‘me’, ‘us’, and ‘them’ within different temporal dimensions, remote relations, and the increasing use of technology.

To meet, encounter, and visit others is foundational to culture and civilization. The ever-increasing number of tourists now challenges the social, cultural, and ecological systems of whole societies. In small, marginalized, and peripheral islands like Gotland, Sweden, tourism and heritage have been embraced as saviors. Although intensive heritage production and increased tourism have boosted parts of the island's economy, it has also led to acute water shortages, increased pollution of the Baltic Sea—already the world's most polluted sea—and to heightened gentrification and marginalization, which in turn has notably increased the islanders' alienation and ambivalence toward their own lifeworld. In the essay, I introduce the notion of "sustainable visits" to envision forms of tourism that build on local understandings of hosts and guests, forms that acknowledge the legacy of the islanders without leading to further marginalization and Othering. How can studying heritage and folklore contribute to sustainable visits and sustainable destination development? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decolonial perspectives on art history have elaborated on the ways visual representations and documentary media are intertwined with the colonial project. The visual regime is associated with the coloniser's Eurocentric, objectifying and territorialising gaze. Can the visual still play a part in healing colonial wounds? The Karrabing Collective, a majority Indigenous group based in the Northern Territories of Australia, seems to engage with this question. Studying their video art as a form of invitation, I question how these works address inhospitable zones in the imaginations of the modern world and settler-colonial legacies. Extending Donna Haraway's metaphor of visiting as a mode of ethical attention, I posit that these works destabilise Western understandings of hospitality, memory, and image-making. I argue that their re-visiting of settler-colonial encounters rejects the primacy of archival integration and access, inviting the viewer to visit the lived space of peripheral vision that shifts between remembering and re-imagining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attending the graves of the dead and, in other words, the dead, both righteous and corrupt, is one of the most controversial issues in Islamic jurisprudence. In such a way that different Islamic sects are sometimes placed together and the Imamiyyah and Sunni jurists have adopted a single opinion in line with each other; Although a part of the public has separated their way from other co-religionists here, they have moved towards the sanctity of the mentioned act and regarding the pilgrim as an idolater and an infidel. Of course, this does not mean that the fatwas of the jurists are dualistic, but the result of the detailed research and search in the jurisprudential and even theological sources of Imami and public thinkers shows the existence of four different theories in the debate. The writers, using descriptive-analytical methods and using library sources, think that the famous Imami and public jurists are right; it means that visiting the graves is permissible and desirable, but as long as there are no unnecessary actions and it is enough to attend the graves, read the Qur'an and supplication, and ask for forgiveness for the dead.

At this critical time of reckoning with histories and present legacies in Canada, we come together as an emergent collaborative research team to reflect on how education and wider systems in this country have shaped our individual and collective experiences. As we affirm our practice of visiting and sharing histories from embodied perspectives and commitments in order to build relations, we find echoes in the concepts and practices of Métis and Black/African-Caribbean diasporic communities that we are in relation to. The notion of e-race-sures helps us name the gaps that our communities have experienced in the cultural imaginaries and literal making of Canada where racialized notions of belonging have enabled colonization and entitled (largely white) settlement. Beyond remediating these gaps, the notion of reclamations allows us to move past deficiencies and affirm what has always been there. This move facilitates thinking and acting accountably in relations that exceed what is underwritten by a seemingly coherent history and present story of Canada. By sharing our individual stories in places in the text, the authors name how we each come to know e-race-sures and reclamations in our own lives. But in collectivizing our stories and finding common resonances, we insist on the power of coalitional possibilities and on the need to make room for other communities and stories beyond ours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The immediate impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) visiting restrictions for family members has been well-documented. However, the longer-term trajectory, including mechanisms for support, is less well-known. To address this knowledge gap, we aimed to explore the post-hospital recovery trajectory of family members of patients hospitalised with a critical care COVID-19 admission. We also sought to understand any differences across international contexts. Methods: We undertook semi-structured interviews with family members of patients who had survived a COVID-19 critical care admission. Family members were recruited from Spain and the United Kingdom (UK) and telephone interviews were undertaken. Interviews were analysed using a thematic content analysis. Results: Across the international sites, 19 family members were interviewed. Four themes were identified: changing relationships and carer burden; family health and trauma; social support and networks and differences in lived experience. We found differences in the social support and networks theme across international contexts, with Spanish participants more frequently discussing religion as a form of support. Conclusions: This international qualitative investigation has demonstrated the challenges which family members of patients hospitalised with a critical care COVID-19 admission experience following hospital discharge. Specific support mechanisms which could include peer support networks, should be implemented for family members to ensure ongoing needs are met. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parental involvement, presented as a normative construct, is widely considered a key strategy important to educational inclusion and democratic citizenship. Yet, migrant parents continue to experience exclusion within national educational settings. This study focused on the positions and participation of fourteen immigrant and refugee parents within Icelandic schools. Findings suggest that, regardless of the kind or level of involvement practised, all the parents were affected by positional boundaries in relation to their parenting practices, whereby many struggled to become involved only to find their knowledge and experiences invalidated. Such internal exclusion occurs in sharp contrast to the inclusive and democratic citizenship ideals presented as part of Icelandic educational policy and works against parents' hopes for inclusive futures. We suggest applying Arendt's metaphor of visiting as a way to disrupt binary power dynamics and normative understandings of parent practices and to rethink the process of parental involvement and inclusion within education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we explore the acceptance of parents into children's wards in Tel-Hashomer Hospital, an important foundation of Israel's health system. In 1953, Tel-Hashomer was the first hospital in Israel to conduct an experimental programme of minimum separation between children and their parents, influenced by the theory of British psychoanalyst and psychiatrist John Bowlby. Tel-Hashomer medical staff encouraged parents to stay long hours near the bedsides of their daughters and sons, which led to a notable change in the ward's daily routine. Eventually, parents became an inseparable part of the ward. This tendency to embrace and welcome parents into the wards was especially surprising when one considers that many of these parents were of Mizrahi origin and suffered an orientalist, racialised stigma of unfit parenting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“Object-label juggling” is the back-and-forth movement that a visitor performs several times between observing a work and reading its wall label (Grassin, 2007). This cognitive process recurs during the museum visit, when the visitor confronts the object. This behaviour, a veritable technique of the body and a cognitive strategy aimed at appropriating the work, was the subject of a specific study on the occasion of a larger-scale investigation into the influence of the exhibition medium on the psychological functioning of the adult visitor. This study, using the tools of applied research in museology, took place at the heart of the Chinese archaeology exhibition Xi’an, capitale éternelle, at the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City in 2002, based on a collection of data from ninety visitors, in collaboration between the École du Louvre and the Université de Montréal. It showed that the structuring of the information governing the label triggers the juggling. The labels that induce the most back-and-forth with the work to which they refer are all provided with a text whose information has a homogeneous and precise editorial structure. These writings offer a set of information distributed in a homogeneous, constant and hierarchical manner from the particular to the general: the nominative, descriptive, explanatory and contextual information is articulated to serve the work exhibited nearby. This visiting strategy is therefore an interpretative process that can improve the perception of the object by making it more complex and richer. Consequently, at a time of crisis of sensitivity to works of art, a real crisis of attention, characterised in particular by an observation time of less than nine seconds, juggling constitutes a strong museographic principle that can encourage observation and allow enriched access to the work. This is why, twenty years after its updating and definition, object-label juggling has guided the redesign of the written mediation of a national museum in Paris, the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge, which was closed for twenty months for the renovation of its buildings and museographic itinerary. This paper will describe how the study of object-label juggling act has contributed to the change in attention to writing in the vicinity of works of art and the prospects for applied research that this makes possible.

Objective: To study the impact of a visiting consultant neurosurgeon on the management and outcome of neurosurgical patients in a hospital with no resident neurosurgeon. Methods: This is a 5-year retrospective study of neurosurgical conditions and their management outcomes by a visiting consultant neurosurgeon in a Nigerian Tertiary institution from January 2016 to December 2020. Results: Thousand two hundred and four (1,204) patients were reviewed. Patients' ages were between 1 h and to 86-year-olds, with a mean of 23 years and a mode of 32 ± 4 years. Children were 423 (35.1%), with 781(64.9%) adults. Males were 862 (71.6%), and Females were 342 (28.4%), with a Male to Female ratio of 5:2. Congenital problems were 170 (14.1% of 1204): meningocoeles (38, 22.4%), myelomeningocoeles (61, 35.9%), encephalocoeles (24, 14.1%), anencephaly (6, 3.5%), and hydrocephalus (41, 24.1%). Acquired conditions were 1034 (85.9% of 1204): Head injuries (486, 47%), spinal cord injuries (51, 5%), Pyogenic brain Abscess (3, 0.3%), Pott's disease (2, 0.2%), Hydrocephalus (63, 6.1%), brain tumour (5, 0.5%), degenerative spine (421, 40.7%), vascular (3, 0.3%). Surgery was indicated in 348(28.9%) patients. Two hundred and twenty-six (18.8% of 1204) had surgeries, while 978 (81.2% of 1204) had no surgeries. Referred to other facilities were 122 (10.1%). Overall, surgical intervention was 64.9% (226 of 348), with mortality of 13.5% (18 patients) among those who had surgical interventions. Conclusions: In countries with very few medical specialists, particularly neurosurgeons, such a regular visit can impact the care of neurosurgical patients in their environment.

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A profile about a young man who's father is on death row.

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The purpose of this study was to analyze and prove the effect of destination image and social influence on visiting intentions and visiting decisions on visitors to the Mulawarman museum in Kutai Kartanegara Regency. This study used 120 respondents and this study used a survey method with a sample in Kutai Kartanegara Regency with the Accidental Sampling Method sampling technique. Respondents were only interviewed once when they met (cross section). Data from respondents (Primary Data) was then tabulated and tested using statistical methods. Data were collected using research tools (questionnaires). Based on the results of the analysis and discussion, it can be concluded that the image of the destination has a significant effect on the visiting intentions of visitors. So the better the image of the destination, the higher the intention to visit. Social has no significant effect on visitors' intention to visit. So the better the social level, the higher the intention to visit. The image of the destination has no significant effect on the decision to visit the visitors. So the high or low level of the image of the destination does not affect the decision to visit. Social influence has a significant effect on the decision to visit. So the better the social level, the higher the decision to visit. Intention to visit has a significant effect on the decision to visit. So the higher the intention to visit, the higher the decision to visit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rationale: Restricted visitation policies during the first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have had a major impact on the ways that intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians communicated with patients and their families, requiring the use of innovative strategies to adapt to new communication structures. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to describe the impact of restricted visitation policies on communication and to identify strategies that could be used to facilitate better communication within Canadian ICUs from the perspective of those affected. Methods: We conducted semistructured individual interviews with critically ill patients, their families, and clinicians from 23 Canadian ICUs during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic between July 2020 and October 2020. We used inductive thematic analysis to identify relevant themes and subthemes. Results: Forty-one interviews were conducted with 3 patients, 8 family members, 17 nurses, and 13 physicians. Five themes were identified from the analysis: 1) patient and family psychosocial and information needs; 2) communication tools; 3) quality of communication; 4) changing roles and responsibilities of patients and nurses/physicians; and 5) facilitators or barriers to implementing alternative communication. Participants identified strategies to leverage new videoconference technology and communication structures to preserve the quality of communication. Conclusions: Our study identified challenges and opportunities related to communication between critically ill patients, families, and ICU clinicians due to the restricted hospital visitation policies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of videoconference technology and changes to communication structure were important strategies to facilitate effective communication within the ICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Children's visits to the ICU are still restricted, and more focus on the child's own needs and experiences are needed. The aim of this study is to illustrate the meaning of being a visiting child of a seriously ill parent receiving care at the ICU. A qualitative descriptive design was used, with open-ended interviews with seven children (6–18 years) performed and analysed using a phenomenological research approach. Being a visiting child of a seriously ill parent receiving care at the ICU is described as a life situation taking place in an unfamiliar environment, characterized by a heartfelt, genuine desire to be there, in an interdependence entailing offering a loved one the help they need while at the same time being seen in a compassionate way and being able to share, revealing a sudden awakening of an inner truth of reality and a sense of a healing wisdom of understanding. The children felt good when they visited their ill parent, but at the same time not fully involved, and desired a more compassionate, caring approach by the nurses. Improvements are needed in how to approach visiting children in a more individual and caring way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aims: Open ICU visiting is recommended because of positive effects on patients and relatives. However, patient visiting in Iranian’s ICU is restricted now. Many issues around the subject have not been properly addressed. Here the visiting challenges have been discussed. Methods: This is a qualitative descriptive-exploratory study conducted through semi-structured deep interview with 35 participants (6 patients, 20 nurses, and 9 patient relatives) in Shahrekord in 2017. Data analysis was carried out with a thematic analysis approach. Results: The main emerged theme was the "Conflict Experience". Families (patientschr('39') relatives) and patients consider the visiting as an important and necessary need, and this unmet need causes "imbalance between the familieschr('39') need and laws" and the "imbalance between the patientchr('39')s need and the laws.” Meanwhile, there was another dichotomy that was imbalance between "nurseschr('39') human and scientific beliefs on the patients and familieschr('39') need" and "nursechr('39')s belief in the reasons for the forbidden visiting and laws". Conclusion: Experiencing "conflict" in participants indicates the necessity to find scientific and applicable strategies to address the visiting challenge.

Rationale: Restriction or prohibition of family visiting intensive care units (ICUs) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses substantial barriers to communication and family- and patient-centered care. Objectives: To understand how communication among families, patients, and the ICU team was enabled during the pandemic. The secondary objectives were to understand strategies used to facilitate virtual visiting and associated benefits and barriers. Methods: A multicenter, cross-sectional, and self-administered electronic survey was sent (June 2020) to all 217 UK hospitals with at least one ICU. Results: The survey response rate was 54%; 117 of 217 hospitals (182 ICUs) responded. All hospitals imposed visiting restrictions, with visits not permitted under any circumstance in 16% of hospitals (28 ICUs); 63% (112 ICUs) of hospitals permitted family presence at the end of life. The responsibility for communicating with families shifted with decreased bedside nurse involvement. A dedicated ICU family-liaison team was established in 50% (106 ICUs) of hospitals. All but three hospitals instituted virtual visiting, although there was substantial heterogeneity in the videoconferencing platform used. Unconscious or sedated ICU patients were deemed ineligible for virtual visits in 23% of ICUs. Patients at the end of life were deemed ineligible for virtual visits in 7% of ICUs. Commonly reported benefits of virtual visiting were reducing patient psychological distress (78%), improving staff morale (68%), and reorientation of patients with delirium (47%). Common barriers to virtual visiting were related to insufficient staff time, rapid implementation of videoconferencing technology, and challenges associated with family members' ability to use videoconferencing technology or access a device. Conclusions: Virtual visiting and dedicated communication teams were common COVID-19 pandemic innovations addressing the restrictions to family ICU visiting, and they resulted in valuable benefits in terms of patient recovery and staff morale. Enhancing access and developing a more consistent approach to family virtual ICU visits could improve the quality of care, both during and outside of pandemic conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An important part of care home life is the support given to older residents by their families/friends through regular visiting. Social visits to residents by their families ceased in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and residents were confined to their rooms. This paper reports on how care home staff improvised to address this situation during the first wave of the pandemic. It focuses on steps taken to maintain communication between residents and families to support emotional well-being. We undertook in-depth café-style interviews with twenty-one staff to explore creative practices that they introduced. It was part of a wider Scottish study examining the effect of lockdown on families whose relative was living/dying in a care home (May–October, 2020). Findings reveal the enormous effort by care staff to maintain family connections and the rapid acclimatisation involved working with a number of different on-line platforms, the pulling together of staff from across the care home, and, the attention to emotional well-being of residents living and dying in the care home. Findings highlight the professionalism and commitment of the leadership and staff involved. Whilst some of the staff accounts need no further comment, we draw on some themes from the care home research literature to make sense of the findings in terms of what we might learn going forward. This in-depth qualitative study emphasises the importance of recognising, fostering and nurturing relational compassionate care within long-term care. There is however little evidence whether health and social care policies recognise the importance of this on-going relationship.

Growth in the US incarcerated population over recent decades has brought a burgeoning body of research on parent-child visitations in correctional facilities. In contrast to this research, which has largely focused on prisons, this study reports survey results from over 900 visitors and incarcerated adults in an urban jail system. We center our attention on the commonality of children visiting jail incarcerated parents, the ways in which a jail system may facilitate or hamper the visitation process, and opinions on potential visiting policy modifications, including the use of video visiting. Implications for jail visitation policies are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Due to the coronavirus infection, visitors to all hospitals were greatly restricted in the UK. In maternity hospitals, only partners of women in labour were permitted to attend the hospital. Aims: This study aimed to gain an understanding of women's experiences of visiting restrictions imposed due to COVID-19. Methods: Women who attended the hospital for outpatient appointments and who were inpatients on the antenatal or postnatal ward during a two-week period were asked to complete an anonymous survey. Findings: A total of 422 surveys were completed. The majority of women (97.6%) agreed that the hospital made adequate preparations for them to feel safe. Most women reported that the restrictions are a good thing and several advantages were identified. Women cited not having their partner with them as the main negative consequence to the restrictions. Conclusions: Although women miss having their partner for support during scans and to help after the baby is born, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the safety aspect of the restrictions and the support received from staff is considered by women when making recommendations to a maternity hospital about whether, or how, to ease restrictions on visiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose Children’s visits to the ICU are still restricted, and more focus on the child’s own needs and experiences are needed. The aim of this study is to illustrate the meaning of being a visiting child of a seriously ill parent receiving care at the ICU. Method A qualitative descriptive design was used, with open-ended interviews with seven children (6–18 years) performed and analysed using a phenomenological research approach. Findings Being a visiting child of a seriously ill parent receiving care at the ICU is described as a life situation taking place in an unfamiliar environment, characterized by a heartfelt, genuine desire to be there, in an interdependence entailing offering a loved one the help they need while at the same time being seen in a compassionate way and being able to share, revealing a sudden awakening of an inner truth of reality and a sense of a healing wisdom of understanding. Conclusions The children felt good when they visited their ill parent, but at the same time not fully involved, and desired a more compassionate, caring approach by the nurses. Improvements are needed in how to approach visiting children in a more individual and caring way.

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Because of long working hours and the perplexity brought about by city life, individuals have less time to devote to their family and friends. This means that they want to spend their leisure time with them. Individuals visit their friends and relatives as a means of socio-cultural life. As a result, new travel / tourism types such as “Visiting Friends and Relatives” have been formed due to such interactions. Although VFR travel has been known for many years, it is a newly discovered phenomenon. Also, as a category of travel / tourism it is difficult to get enough information about it. Given the fact that there are a significant number of travelers in the world visiting families and friends, it is important, that VFR travel / tourism potential should be taken into consideration. For this purpose, this study will try to draw a comprehensive framework by focusing on VFR travel / tourism concept.

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This paper presents some initial findings of a double-sided study on collective research in inclusive education. The aim is to discuss how thinking on inclusive education can be produced and evolved in a community of inquiry consisting of practitioners and researchers. The paper presents both a research process and an explorative theoretical endeavour to rethink how we might conduct research in education and more specifically inclusive education. The theoretical point of departure is Hannah Arendt's concept of 'thinking without a banister' which, succinctly put, means to be able to think without a fixed methodology. We connect Arendt's idea of 'thinking without a banister' with Johann Friedrich Herbart's concept of pedagogical tact, which deals with the strong connection between theory and practice in educational processes. The paper ends with a reflection on the possible influence on inclusive education of the framework presented, and how it might lead to a more inclusive starting point for thinking about and researching the field of inclusive education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Objectives Quantitative and qualitative data from a statewide survey of family members of nursing home residents were analyzed to determine the predictors of, and motivations for, family involvement. Research Design and Methods We examined 3 types of involvement: visiting, providing personal care, and family–staff communication. Our mixed methods approach used (a) multilevel regression models to examine predictors of family involvement, including family member perceptions and resident, family member, and facility characteristics, and (b) a thematic analysis of qualitative data regarding the experiences of family members and their motivations for involvement. Results Families were more involved when a short-term stay (<3 months) was expected, and when residents were in poorer physical condition. Spouses and female family members were more involved than others, yet the effect of gender varied by relationship type. At the facility level, families of residents in rural facilities reported less family involvement. Aside from these commonalities, predictors of each type of involvement varied. Themes from the qualitative data identify unique motivations for each type of involvement—to enhance residents' identity, care, or quality of life. Discussion Families visit more and provide more hands-on assistance when they are not confident in the care being provided or the well-being and stability of their resident loved one. Receiving adequate information, perceiving staff as friendly, and residents as looking well cared for promote greater family–staff communication. Implications Findings can inform strategies to increase meaningful family involvement in nursing homes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Weaving Kiosk project was a series of nine temporary weaving spaces that took place in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland throughout 2017 and 2018. Each Kiosk provided catalysts for conversations beyond preconceived ideas of what hand weaving in northern Europe means today. Using the two-year participatory Weaving Kiosk project as a case study, this article seeks to complement Donna Haraway's concept of 'visiting' as a research inquiry method with the idea of 'having visits' as a method for approaching participation. The methods of visiting and having visits share their central ambition, but differ in their motion vectors and material densities. While visiting describes an outward discovery into unknown physical and intellectual territory, having visits resonates as an inward discovery into an authored material territory through dialogue with the visitor, space and host. This article considers how the dialogical research tools used in the Weaving Kiosk become testable through having visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Visiting restrictions were enacted in Aotearoa New Zealand to reduce transmission of COVID-19 and protect the healthcare system. This research aimed to investigate the experiences of families and clinicians of hospital visiting for people with palliative and end-of-life care needs during restrictions., Methods: Semistructured interviews were completed between March and October 2021 with family members and clinicians who had personally experienced enactment of visiting restrictions during pandemic restrictions. A critical realist ontology was used to approach data analysis, sorting and coding to generate themes., Results: Twenty-seven participants were interviewed, 13 being families who had experienced bereavement of a family member during the restrictions: seven nurses or physicians and seven being non-bereaved family members. Four themes were generated: patient safety-(re)defining the 'Visitor'; the primacy of SARS-CoV-2-patient safety and negotiating risk; dying alone: enduring harms; and agency, strategies and workarounds., Conclusion: Visitor rights and visitor policy at the end of life require greater protection during a pandemic. Transparent, coherent, publicly available evidence-based guidelines that key stakeholders, including patients, families and ethicists, are included in producing, are urgently required. We want to avert a legacy of disenfranchised grief in future pandemics., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)

Through a lens of identity and the self, this article analyses the views of 39 primary carer fathers incarcerated in Victoria focusing specifically on the points of intersection between fathers and their children. Using the prison visiting room and phone conversations by way of illustration it explores differing expressions of masculinity and seeks to understand the conflict of identity that exists for fathers within these liminal, in-between spaces. We aim to address a gap in research and theory by providing new insights into fathering and conflicting constructions of masculinity within the prison as seen in 'frontstage' and 'backstage' selves and by exploring how fathers perform fathering within this space. We conclude by summarising the key theoretical and practical implications of our work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades the number of incarcerated parents has increased on a global scale. The majority of these prisoners are men, yet there has been very little formal attention concerning the parenting status of these men, despite knowledge about the impact of parental incarceration on children being well established. In Victoria, Australia, some 93 per cent of prisoners are men, and more than half of these are fathers, yet they have also attracted limited scholarly and practitioner attention. This article explores research and practice accounts regarding support for incarcerated fathers and their children, particularly emphasising visiting, supported/visiting and fathering units, to build knowledge in Victoria. To do so it examines 36 publications from 2000 to 2018, addressing a gap in knowledge relating to supporting father-child relationships from prison. It concludes by offering pragmatic solutions for the development of supports that will contribute to the maintenance of these relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a notion often taken for granted in contemporary Western everyday life that there is an intimate connection between empathy and moral action. Yet, in recent years, this connection has come under scrutiny. In this article, we first ask the question, "What is empathy?" A brief survey of the psychological and philosophical approaches to the notion of empathy shows that it remains a highly contested concept. The field has a propensity to discuss empathy within the frame of sameness. We instead argue that, in order to grasp empathy, it is necessary to foreground otherness. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, we further argue that, when encountering the stranger, moral action requires both visiting the other—as distinct from empathic knowledge—and thinking in order to judge what is right. Ultimately, moral dilemmas are solved, not by having or demanding empathy, but by addressing the issues at hand in joint action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose of Study This study focuses on the relationship between family involvement and family perceptions of nursing home residents' quality of life (QOL). Design and Methods Resident and family variables from the 2012 Ohio Family Satisfaction Survey were merged with facility information from the Certification and Survey Enhanced Reports (CASPER). Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the association between family involvement and other predictors with perceived resident QOL. Results Although most of the variability in family member perceptions of resident QOL was observed at the individual level (residents and families), characteristics of the facilities were also significantly associated with perceived resident QOL. Family involvement was a strong predictor of perceived resident QOL: Families who visited frequently and provided more help with personal care perceived lower resident QOL, while those who communicated frequently with facility staff had higher perceptions of resident QOL. Interestingly, the negative association between helping with more personal care and perceiving lower resident QOL was attenuated when family members communicated more regularly with facility staff. However, as family member age increased, the positive association between communication with facility staff and resident QOL diminished. Family members who are spouses, older, non-White, and highly educated perceived resident QOL as lower. Implications Meaningful family involvement is a modifiable factor that can potentially enhance resident QOL. Facilities can become more family-oriented through encouraging communication between staff and families, helping spouses and other family members fulfill their desired caregiving role, and discussing the family's motivations for providing personal care during visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND: Hospitalization in intensive care units (ICUs) can cause physiological and psychological challenges for patients and their family members. Using a family-centered approach in provision of visiting hours promotes the health of patients. The purpose of this study is to review the perception of nurses and family members of patients in ICUs about visiting their patients. METHODOLOGY: The published articles in the last 10 years from 2008 to 2018 on the perception of nurses and family members of patients in critical care units about visiting their patients searched for in databases including ScienceDirect, PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar, SID, Scopus, CINAHL, OVID, IRANDOC, and Magiran using keywords “family members perception,” “nurses' perception,” “intensive care units,” and “visiting” in English and Farsi, and finally, 15 articles were selected. RESULTS: Results showed that nurses do not have appropriate viewpoint about visiting patients in ICUs, and they discussed and outlined the barriers of visiting patients given the benefits of family members' presence. CONCLUSION: There are several limitations on the process of family members visiting their patients in the ICUs. It is essential to modify the nurses' attitudes and remove the organizational limitations in this area.

Studies on Chilean memory sites have focused on the spaces created to remember the human rights abuses carried out during the dictatorship. However, the ways in which people experience and appropriate these readings of the past have received scarce attention. In this article, we explore how individuals who were not victims of human rights abuses experience two memory sites in Santiago, Chile: Villa Grimaldi and Londres 38. Following the premise that memory emerges as a product of semiotic and material assembling materialized in the interaction between sites and visitors, we analyze the relationship between the memory sites’ suggested readings of the past and the experiences of the public. We argue that this experience allows visitors to connect past atrocities with broader social discourses circulating in Chile in the form of abstract knowledge. This requires visitors to assume a position in relation to different historical accounts, allowing specific reconfigurations of collective memory to emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]