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• Laura and Peter will meet with Juveria to discuss an outline for publication regarding thresholds and managing to improve them through staff and patient interactions.
• Peter will lead the writing, and Patrycja and Sitra will contribute to the background writing.
• Marta to summarize statistical analyses.
• Next meeting scheduled for July 12^th, 10AM – 1PM
• Valeria and Sitra will present their respective projects for the summer along with their progress.
• Igor will present his literature review for the dashboard project.
• Meeting theme: TBD

Word Frequencies

• Chris presented comparisons of word frequencies from records between different groups (i.e., gender differences, racial differences).
• Possible imbalances in sample size were discussed due to the nature of the word frequencies.
• Chris to further refine word frequencies presented to remove incidents not related to patients and link these to demographic data.
• Marta will investigate reviewing weighted word frequencies by incident type and review words through entity recognition to yield further context.

Topic Model

• Marta presented findings on trained model on categorized topics related to objects or spaces in the ED (i.e., client spaces, staff spaces).
• Invasion of client space came up often (specifically in the washroom category), as well as clients invading staff space.
• Laura will further explore sociolinguistics in relation to sharing intimate spaces and discrimination based on the findings of the analysis.

Space and Risk Assessment in Ethnography

• Laura and Peter led the discussion on types of spaces, such as physical, metaphorical, and in-between spaces, and their thresholds at the ED. They shared their observations about risk regarding spaces in relation to the history of psychiatric policies and care.
• There are thresholds in these spaces that define boundaries and where risk takes place. However, thresholds are often transgressed in each.
• In the current ED space, nurses and PAs spend the most time in proximity to risk.
• Laura and Peter will recreate the whiteboard/shadow documents from the ED care station for visualization.
• Team to further investigate gender-responsive de-escalation and racialized care work in interviews.
• Works to be considered: “Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit” by Lorna A. Rhodes, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible, directed by John Kastner.

General Planning

• Laura and Sitra to touch base on REB flyers.
• Team to begin working on patient advisory group while awaiting REB approval.
• June meeting theme: Shadow work