- Title
- The impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on undergraduate nursing students' study of anatomy and physiology
- Creator
- Abdelkader, Amany; Barbagallo, Michael
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187153
- Identifier
- vital:16988
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000000851
- Identifier
- ISBN:1538-2931 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The COVID-19 global pandemic caused major disruptions to the delivery of human Anatomy and Physiology courses to nursing students worldwide. The aim of the current study is to evaluate nursing students' experiences and perceptions of transitioning from a blended to a purely online study mode for first year Anatomy and Physiology courses during the global pandemic. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used with a sample of undergraduate nursing students enrolled at a regional Australian university across its three campuses. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to describe the study population. Content analysis was used to evaluate the participants' use of resources, experiences, and preferences in studying anatomy and physiology. There were 101 participants recruited in the study. Results indicated that face-to-face study mode (41.86%) was the preferred method of delivery during the global pandemic and participants were having a renewed appreciation for the blended study mode (38.37%). Online study mode was the least preferred (19.77%), with the participants' opinions of this mode of study not altered by the global pandemic. Although the COVID-19 global pandemic shifted the traditional teaching of anatomy and physiology in nursing programs to an online environment, the long-term impacts of this disruption have yet to be ascertained. Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Relation
- CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing Vol. 40, no. 4 (2022), p. 278-284
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3904 Specialist studies in education; 4203 Health services and systems; 4205 Nursing; Anatomy and Physiology; Blended; COVID-19; Global pandemic; Nursing; Online; Undergraduate
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