Open AccessNursing Students’ Clinical Practice Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
Author(s) -
Dian Susmarini,
Made Sumarwati,
Fitria Handayani,
Asep Iskandar
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2022.8116
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , thematic analysis , nonprobability sampling , covid-19 , coping (psychology) , qualitative research , nursing , clinical practice , medical education , clinical psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , social science , population , environmental health , sociology
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is putting clinical practice in all nursing schools to the challenge. While students should be cautious of infection, they still need to practice in a hospital setting.AIM: The purpose of this study is to gain insight into students’ clinical experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.METHODS: This study employed a qualitative methodology and a phenomenological approach. A purposive sampling technique was used to recruit seven clinical nursing students. We conducted semi-structured interviews until the data were saturated. Data were analyzed with thematic analysis to identify and describe the patterns.RESULTS: Five major themes emerged from students’ clinical practice experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychological response, obtained support, inconvenient experience, positive side, and coping.CONCLUSION: The findings suggested that nursing school must address the difficulties students perceive, as clinical practice learning will almost certainly change in the following years due to the epidemic.