Nursing Education During Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic Process: Uncertainties and Suggestions

Abstract

Nursing education has a structure that requires the application of the theoretical knowledge gained to the student during the learning process in the clinical field. However, during the coronavirus 2019 pandemic, which has been fought on a global scale since the end of 2019, many changes are occurring in human life in order to break the transmission chain of the virus. One of these changes is that institutions providing education in the field of nursing have to continue their formal education processes, which are given face-to-face, through distance education. In this process, evaluations on technological infrastructure, access to and use of information resources of educators and students could not be made. This process, which has not yet been structured and keeps students away from the clinical field, poses a threat to nursing students' cognitive, affective and psychomotor competencies that they need to gain in their educational processes. Therefore, many uncertainties arise regarding both the theoretical and practical dimensions of nursing education, and it is seen that views on the sustainability of nursing education have been put forward in the literature. The purpose of the review is to make inferences and suggestions in line with the literature regarding the uncertainty about how nursing education can be maintained during the Coronavirus 2019 pandemic process.

Keywords

• coronavirus 2019
• nursing
• nursing education
• nursing student