Covid-19 and continuing nursing education a mini review

COVID-19 has had a profound impact on society at all levels. A great deal of the impact is felt by those working in the healthcare sector. The current review reflects on the various issues that affect nurses during COVID-19. Issues such as the different emotions experienced by nurses with COVID-19 during the isolation and treatment process, the roles and responsibilities of nurses during COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological distress among nurses in the care of patients with COVID-19, and the various challenges faced by nurses during COVID-19 pandemic. In essence, nurses play a critical role and responsibilities during an emergency and disaster situations. Nurses serving patients in the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic are risking their lives at risk to be able to perform their duties causing tremendous fear of contracting the virus or transmitting it to other people. Therefore, continuous education is needed in other to prepare for the future.

Open Journal of Nursing, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all nurses and healthcare providers across the world, raising numerous critical questions about the current and future of nursing education. The following editorial attempts to highlight and comment on how to prepare nurses to meet the most critical emerging educational needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. X.S. Blessing NimaSajai, Department of Nursing, Applied Medical Science College For Females, Alnamas, University Of Bisha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2020

COVID-19 changed the normal function of all over the world and it had great impact on all sectors. Education is very important to shapes our future citizen. COVID 19 affects our education system also. And especially few education sector were practical oriented training based education such as medicine, nursing, applied medical science, engineering etc. Based on this, it is very important because in future we need more doctors, nurses and other health professionals to meet the health needs of our human population and to protect them from the effect of dead full communicable diseases, so there by we need to give training based education for such professionals during this pandemic period in an effective manner to bring out efficient health professionals. As I belong to nursing professional working under academic sector I wish to share the impacts of this COVID 19 pandemic in nursing education sector. In this article you can see various problems or challenges faced in nursing education sector by academicians and also various possible teaching learning solutions handled by various teaching faculties to overcome the educational problems during this pandemic era. I hope this article will be useful for nursing professionals who were working in education sectors to train their nursing students to gain adequate knowledge and practice in their field. Key words: Nursing education, COVID-19, pandemic

International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2020

The Nurses' contribution to the Health care sector globally is always delightful. The abrupt and undetected spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide, with variant mortality and morbidity rates in different countries, had put the health system into crisis. Response to the outbreak, preventing the spread of infection and control strategies, and nursing care during the pandemic is vital to attain goals of present medical emergency. Authors took efforts to discuss the perspective of nurses being front line health care workers, in an imperative situation in which the human population is undergoing with uncertainty, along with issues and concerns involved in managing the situation. The leadership qualities among nurses to overcome the complex COVID-19 is once again proved in this episode of the pandemic. The concern to individual nurse in preserving the ethical and moral values with the fundamental framework and training undergone is recalled and channelized. Nurses pla...

Nursing Forum

Background: It is important that nursing students who will be at the forefront of providing health services and be key personnel in the development of public health practices have sufficient knowledge of COVID-19 and related appropriate practices surrounding the outbreak. Thus, it is necessary to update the nursing curriculum for the changing needs in nursing education in urgent public health problems such as epidemics. Aims: This study aims to determine the knowledge and practices of nursing students about the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This study was conducted with 304 nursing students. The study data were collected using online tools consisting of a personal information form and the COVID-19 Knowledge and Practice Questionnaire. Results: Participants had good levels of knowledge and practices regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. The students' total mean knowledge score regarding COVID-19 was 28.95 ± 4.46 and their total mean practice score was 5.85 ± 1.03. Conclusions: It is very important that all nurse candidates, who will soon play an active role in the pandemic, have the correct knowledge and practices to prevent its spread. Therefore, the current curriculum for nurses, whom we can describe as the backbone of public health, should be equipped and enriched with evidence to support them during major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem

Objectives: Understand the perception during the care work of nursing professionals who work in inpatient units in the care of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 and describe the experience and challenges of their work in this area of work. Method: Exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study. The interviews were individual, carried out in person. Socio demographic data were previously collected through a self-applied questionnaire. Results: The sample consisted of 25nursing professionals, 84% nurses and16% nursing technicians. From the analysis of the content of the participants' speeches, six thematic categories were constructed:Uncertainty and fear of anything new and of the unknown; Personal and social challenges working with COVID-19; The relevance of human and material resources, linked to permanent in-service education for coping; Ambiguity of feelings of the participants in the face of expressions of support or prejudice on the part of the community; Reaction...

Thesis, 2020

Covid-19 created the biggest worldwide public health emergency. Nurses as the largest component of the health care workforce, play an important role both locally and globally in managing. The web-based survey lasted about two weeks between April-May 2020 assessed the nurses' knowledge of and attitude towards Covid-19. Eighty-one nurses from Vlore, Albania, were study participants. Most were female and belonged to the age group 20-29 years, with less than 5 years of work experience. The majority of nurses reported having sufficient knowledge about Covid-19. The sources of information included television, social media, work institution, and the Ministry of Health. All nurses refer that Covid-19 is a viral infection, while 14% of them refer that there is a vaccine available. About 39% state that antibiotics are the first-line treatment. The results suggest appropriate information sources, participation in programs for the prevention and control of infections, and mental health supp...

Revista gaúcha de enfermagem, 2022

Potentialities and difficulties in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic Potencialidades e dificuldades na educação em enfermagem durante a pandemia de COVID-19

Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences , 2020

Background: Pandemic of COVID-19 coincided with the year of Nurses and Midwives 2020. In war against invisible that has been ongoing during this pandemic, nurses play crucial role. As of June 2020, more than 600 nurses have lost their lives due to COVID-19. Nursing practice takes patients' safety at paramount through continuum of testing, quarantine and isolation. Thus, there is need to review challenges that pandemic has posed as well as the avenues of opportunities that it has opened for nurses. Method: Review of existing literature on nurses, their challenges and opportunities during COVID-19 was done using electronic database. Freely accessible literatures in English language that clearly mentioned on challenges and opportunities of nurses during COVID-19 were included in the study. Result: One of thechallenges that nurses face during COVID-19 is workforce shortage. With increasing number of people infected with COVID-19, it outstretches the existing nursing health workforce, and disproportionately in the low and middle incomes countries. They are at risk of infection and have high job demand. The incidents of suicide among nurses are representation of physical distress and psychological trauma. Role of nurses in patients care during COVID-19 can be underrated and stigmatized. Internationally trained nurses and minorities nurses are at increased risk of discrimination. Despite these challenges, COVID-19 puts forward opportunities for nurses on implementing humanistic theory in practice, self-esteem and sharing of real time stories, contingency management and creativity. It opens platform for leading infection prevention measures and advocacy of profession. Conclusion: Being the pertinent stakeholders in patient care, nurses' faces different challenges as well as some opportunities. COVID-19 has opened avenues for advocacy of nursing profession to get acknowledged for their dedication, perseverance, high morale and contribution during the pandemic management.

Egyptian Journal of Health Care

Background: COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century and the greatest challenge that the humankind faced since the 2nd World War. Egypt is one of the five African countries with the largest number of cases, with 415,468 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 22,460 deaths. Aim: this study aimed to assess the nursing students' knowledge regarding COVID-19 & precautionary measures regarding COVID-19. Design: A descriptive analytical study was used. Sample: A stratified simple random sample of 334 nursing students. Setting: faculty of nursing, Sohag university. Tools: two tools were used for data collection. 1 st tool was electronic questionnaire to assess the nursing students' knowledge regarding COVID-19 & precautionary measures regarding COVID-19. part Ι: demographic data of nursing students, part ΙΙ: (A) assessment of nursing students' knowledge regarding COVID-19, (B) Source of information regarding COVID-19. part ΙΙΙ: Assessment of nursing student's knowledge regarding precautionary measures toward COVID-19.2 ed tool was observational checklist for the precautionary measures implemented by the nursing students. Results: results of this study indicated that 53.9% of them were male. 67.7% of them were living in rural area.31.1% at first academic year. Total nursing students' knowledge regarding COVID-19 was 64%, precautionary measures was 95%, and their total practice was 80%. Conclusion: Slightly less than two-third of nursing students had a satisfactory knowledge about COVID-19 and majority of them had a satisfactory knowledge about precautionary measures, also most of them had satisfactory practice related to precautionary measures toward COVID-19, and there is a highly statistical correlation between total knowledge of nursing students and their total practice. Recommendation: Instructions about proper use of face mask should be written on the packages.