Nursing students' intention to do Clinical Practice during Coronavirus Pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Boujeddain, Othmane
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/17878
• topic: Nursing students; Clinical practice; Coronavirus pandemic; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Médicas::Outras Ciências Médicas

Introduction: Coronavirus infections are known as a respiratory virus that cause disease ranging from a normal cold to a severe respiratory syndrome. On 30th January 2019 the world health organization announced the novel coronavirus (covid-19) as a public health emergency of international concern. Nursing education has significantly affected by this pandemic, Nursing students were forced to stop clinical practice for approximately one year and attend only online classes. During the first year of pandemic nursing students’ fail to do their clinical practice which is considered mandatory in students’ learning experience, the interaction between nursing students and other healthcare workers as well as patients is crucial. However there is a limited number of research evidences regarding the assessment of the nursing students' intention do clinical practice under the existence of covid-19 pandemic. Objective: To examine how nursing students’ intention to do clinical practice during covid-19 is influenced. Methods: For the scooping review a literature search of electronic databases and web searching were conducted for published and unpublished articles. Four databases will be utilized: CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed and Scopus, Web of Science and Cochrane Library. For the cross‑sectional study students under course 33 (3rd year) and course 34 (4th year) at the school of Health Santarém were selected .Data was collected using online structured self-administered questionnaire (Survey Monkey platform used with license granted by the Quality Of Life Research Center, in which the supervisor José Amendoeira is an integrated member) The questionnaire is made up of four sections namely, socio-demographic variables, knowledge of covid‑19, students ‘perception, intention and readiness to do clinical practice. Results: A total of 84 nursing students from the School of Health Santarém Portugal were included. The majority of responders were female (n=71, 84.5%) with mean age of 22.89 years old (SD=5.0), The duration of exposition to clinical practice was different among participants, 32 (38.1%) students were exposed to clinical practice for a period varying between 5 to 8 weeks, and the remaining 25 students (29.8%) were exposed to clinical practice for a period longer than three months. Furthermore, nursing students at the school of health Santarém showed good knowledge toward coronavirus disease; participants at the aforementioned school answered the majority of questions related coronavirus correctly. Responses related to perception showed that the majority of students 44 (52.4%) are having fear toward coronavirus. However, 62 (73.8%) of the respondents are satisfied with clinical practice during coronavirus time. Concerning the readiness and intention to practice 41 (48.8%) of students answered that they are ready to practice in clinical area and 31 (36.9%) of students are ready to practice where coronavirus patients exist. Conclusion: Although the existence of Coronavirus Pandemic the nursing students’ intention to do clinical practice remains positive. However the variables that influence this intention are changing from one country to another.