Ilankoon Ilankoon Mudiyanselage Prasanthi Sumudrika, Kisokanth Gnanaselvam, Warnakulasuriya Sudath Shirely Pathmasiri
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda.
Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
J Public Health Res. 2020 Nov 17;9(Suppl 1):1916. doi: 10.4081/jphr.2020.1916.
"Novel Corona Virus" (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease spreading all around the world that has a globally significant morbidity and mortality at present. Nurses as frontline care providers in hospitals and community are exposed to a major risk. This brief report aims at providing an overview of COVID-19 impacts on Sri Lanka and to highlight educational implications from the perspective of nursing degree programs. The major impacts of COVID-19 on nursing education were unequal access to online distance learning, disruption of academic calendars, cancellation of clinical placements, teaching and learning gap, lack of facilities for online learning, disruption towards professional development, and inability to conduct proper clinical assessments and standard operationalization procedures. It suggests that higher education institutions should take actions to provide material support for students from low-income households to close the gap between teaching and learning and training academics on different online teaching and learning strategies and assessments.
“新型冠状病毒”（COVID-19）是一种正在全球传播的新型传染病，目前在全球范围内具有重大的发病率和死亡率。护士作为医院和社区的一线护理人员面临着重大风险。本简要报告旨在概述COVID-19对斯里兰卡的影响，并从护理学位课程的角度突出教育意义。COVID-19对护理教育的主要影响包括在线远程学习机会不平等、学术日历中断、临床实习取消、教学差距、缺乏在线学习设施、职业发展受阻以及无法进行适当的临床评估和标准操作程序。报告建议高等教育机构应采取行动，为低收入家庭的学生提供物质支持，以缩小教学差距，并培训教师掌握不同的在线教学策略和评估方法。
