Kanagaraj Puvaneswari, Arulappan Judie, Pradhan Arpita, Moustafa Mohammed Shimmaa Mansour
Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Bisha, Bisha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Department of Maternal and Child Health, College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, Al Khoudh, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
SAGE Open Nurs. 2024 Aug 21;10:23779608241272484. doi: 10.1177/23779608241272484. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted the nursing education across the world. The nursing students faced many challenges in their learning process.
The study explored the experiences and challenges faced by nursing students who had virtual education in India.
The study adopted an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design. The study was conducted as two phases. Phase 1: Qualitative data were collected using direct focus group interview with 18 students. Phase 2: Quantitative data were collected from 477 students using a Likert scale prepared by the investigators of the study on challenges experienced by nursing students on their education. The analysis was done using the descriptive and inferential statistics and thematic analysis.
Phase 1: The analyzed data produced seven themes and 10 sub-themes; (1) technical issues-a concern, (2) regular rhythm in educational training-but not complete, (3) stress and strain, (4) evaluation-a concern, (5) communication, (6) comfort zone, and (7) easy distraction. Phase 2: Majority of the students (54.71%) experienced high-level challenges with the nursing education during pandemic. The overall mean and SD of all the domain-wise challenges were 103.39 + 7.11 with the range from 30 to 150. The mean and SD with educational challenges were (20.27 + 3.04), environmental challenges (6.92 + 1.66), communication challenges (17.61 + 4.01), technical challenges (17.39 + 3.75), evaluation challenges (7.09 + 1.94), physical and mental challenges (20.47 + 4.33), career challenges (7.06 + 1.91), and financial challenges (6.61 + 2.1). The demographic variable gender ( = 0.045) showed a statistically significant association with the challenges.
Considering the experiences and challenges faced by the nursing students, the nursing administrators shall design educational strategies to mitigate these challenges in nursing education during a pandemic.
Virtual nursing education offers flexibility in teaching and learning, self-paced learning opportunity, lower the costs, career advancement, comfortable learning environment, more opportunities for participation, easier to track documentation and improves skills in technology. Therefore, the challenges in virtual nursing education should be lessened to have successful teaching learning experiences.
新冠疫情的爆发扰乱了全球的护理教育。护理专业学生在学习过程中面临诸多挑战。
本研究探讨了印度接受虚拟教育的护理专业学生的经历和挑战。
本研究采用探索性序列混合方法设计。研究分两个阶段进行。第一阶段:通过对18名学生进行直接焦点小组访谈收集定性数据。第二阶段:使用由该研究的调查人员编制的李克特量表,从477名学生中收集定量数据,该量表用于评估护理专业学生在教育过程中所经历的挑战。分析采用描述性和推断性统计以及主题分析。
第一阶段:分析后的数据产生了7个主题和10个子主题;(1)技术问题——一个关注点;(2)教育培训中的常规节奏——但不完整;(3)压力与紧张;(4)评估——一个关注点;(5)沟通;(6)舒适区;(7)容易分心。第二阶段:大多数学生(54.71%)在疫情期间的护理教育中经历了高水平的挑战。所有领域挑战的总体均值和标准差为103.39 ± 7.11,范围为30至150。教育挑战的均值和标准差为(20.27 ± 3.04),环境挑战为(6.92 ± 1.66),沟通挑战为(17.61 ± 4.01),技术挑战为(17.39 ± 3.75),评估挑战为(7.09 ± 1.94),身心挑战为(20.47 ± 4.33),职业挑战为(7.06 ± 1.91),财务挑战为(6.61 ± 2.1)。人口统计学变量性别(p = 0.045)与挑战之间存在统计学上的显著关联。
考虑到护理专业学生所面临的经历和挑战,护理管理人员应设计教育策略,以减轻疫情期间护理教育中的这些挑战。
虚拟护理教育在教学方面提供了灵活性、自主学习机会、降低成本、职业发展、舒适的学习环境、更多参与机会、便于跟踪记录并提高技术技能。因此,应减少虚拟护理教育中的挑战,以获得成功的教学学习体验。