Undergraduate nursing students' learning experiences of a telehealth clinical practice program during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.
Nurse Educ Today
; 111: 105297, 2022 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1670934
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurse education institutions are required to create innovative and diverse educational methods to ensure the continued learning of undergraduate nursing students. We developed a telehealth clinical practice program to address this challenge.OBJECTIVES:
We explored the students' learning experiences of our telehealth clinical practice program by qualitatively analyzing student reports.METHODS:
The participants were fourth-year undergraduate students who had taken the telehealth clinical practice program at Hiroshima University. Data were collected as reports from the participants during clinical practice and analyzed using thematic analysis.RESULTS:
Of the 59 students who completed the practical training, 26 agreed to participate in the study (consent rate 44.1%). Sixteen themes emerged from the analysis as the students' learning experiences, and were classified into four thematic categories (1) recognition of continued self-improvement required to become a nurse and development of a sense of ethics, (2) improvement of knowledge and practical skills in chronic care nursing, (3) acquisition of telehealth skills, and (4) learning through modeling and teamwork, and improvement of self-efficacy. Interacting with persons through telehealth provided an opportunity to learn directly about persons' lives and their experiences of illness, and helped participants develop a sense of responsibility and ethical nursing.CONCLUSIONS:
Our study findings indicate that undergraduate nursing students perceived that their attitude, knowledge and skill acquisition improved through this program. We believe that telehealth can have a place as a teaching strategy and this telehealth clinical practice program can be further enhanced the learning effects by combining it with face-to-face training and multidisciplinary education in the future.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Nursing
/
Telemedicine
/
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
/
COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
/
Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Nurse Educ Today
Journal subject:
Education
/
Nursing
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS