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COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka

“Novel Corona Virus” (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease spreading all around the world that has a globally significant morbidity and mortality at present. Nurses as frontline care providers in hospitals and community are exposed to a major risk. This brief report aims at providing an overview of...

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Autores principales: Ilankoon, Ilankoon Mudiyanselage Prasanthi Sumudrika, Kisokanth, Gnanaselvam, Warnakulasuriya, Sudath Shirely Pathmasiri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33409248
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2020.1916
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description “Novel Corona Virus” (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease spreading all around the world that has a globally significant morbidity and mortality at present. Nurses as frontline care providers in hospitals and community are exposed to a major risk. This brief report aims at providing an overview of COVID-19 impacts on Sri Lanka and to highlight educational implications from the perspective of nursing degree programs. The major impacts of COVID-19 on nursing education were unequal access to online distance learning, disruption of academic calendars, cancellation of clinical placements, teaching and learning gap, lack of facilities for online learning, disruption towards professional development, and inability to conduct proper clinical assessments and standard operationalization procedures. It suggests that higher education institutions should take actions to provide material support for students from low-income households to close the gap between teaching and learning and training academics on different online teaching and learning strategies and assessments.
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spelling pubmed-77710272021-01-05 COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka Ilankoon, Ilankoon Mudiyanselage Prasanthi Sumudrika Kisokanth, Gnanaselvam Warnakulasuriya, Sudath Shirely Pathmasiri J Public Health Res The Impact of COVID in Higher Education “Novel Corona Virus” (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease spreading all around the world that has a globally significant morbidity and mortality at present. Nurses as frontline care providers in hospitals and community are exposed to a major risk. This brief report aims at providing an overview of COVID-19 impacts on Sri Lanka and to highlight educational implications from the perspective of nursing degree programs. The major impacts of COVID-19 on nursing education were unequal access to online distance learning, disruption of academic calendars, cancellation of clinical placements, teaching and learning gap, lack of facilities for online learning, disruption towards professional development, and inability to conduct proper clinical assessments and standard operationalization procedures. It suggests that higher education institutions should take actions to provide material support for students from low-income households to close the gap between teaching and learning and training academics on different online teaching and learning strategies and assessments. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2020-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7771027/ /pubmed/33409248 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2020.1916 Text en ©Copyright: the Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle The Impact of COVID in Higher Education
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Kisokanth, Gnanaselvam
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COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka
title COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka
title_full COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka
title_fullStr COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka
title_short COVID-19: Impact on undergraduate nursing education in Sri Lanka
title_sort covid-19: impact on undergraduate nursing education in sri lanka
topic The Impact of COVID in Higher Education
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33409248
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2020.1916
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