AN IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN NURSING EDUCATION

Author Name: Dr. X.S. Blessing NimaSajai

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/10.2020-25483519/

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nursing, Applied Medical Science College For Females, Alnamas, University Of Bisha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

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