Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown.
Formal education is crucial for the development of nurses' professional identity and can play a decisive role in attracting students to the nursing profession. This is even more important during a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate nursing stu...
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| author | Maša Černelič-Bizjak Petra Dolenc |
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| description | Formal education is crucial for the development of nurses' professional identity and can play a decisive role in attracting students to the nursing profession. This is even more important during a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate nursing students' attitudes and feelings toward their future profession and academic studies during the first COVID-19 lockdown. A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on 361 nursing students. The data were collected through the Students' attitudes toward the nursing profession during the COVID-19 outbreak scale, and the Satisfaction with online learning scale. Nursing students expressed higher levels of commitment and dedication to their profession compared to perceived job security. They were generally satisfied with their distance learning experience in terms of accessibility of study materials, adaptation of lectures and quality of communication with academic staff. However, students perceived the ICT-supported distance learning as moderately effective. Students' satisfaction with online learning was positively related to their perceived professional commitment. In times of health crisis, faculties should consider students' perceived quality of nursing education and attitudes toward future profession to promote appropriate professional identity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8bc764a9c1e2418a9d6c7a9b92119cef2022-12-22T04:16:02ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-011711e027719810.1371/journal.pone.0277198Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown.Maša Černelič-BizjakPetra DolencFormal education is crucial for the development of nurses' professional identity and can play a decisive role in attracting students to the nursing profession. This is even more important during a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate nursing students' attitudes and feelings toward their future profession and academic studies during the first COVID-19 lockdown. A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on 361 nursing students. The data were collected through the Students' attitudes toward the nursing profession during the COVID-19 outbreak scale, and the Satisfaction with online learning scale. Nursing students expressed higher levels of commitment and dedication to their profession compared to perceived job security. They were generally satisfied with their distance learning experience in terms of accessibility of study materials, adaptation of lectures and quality of communication with academic staff. However, students perceived the ICT-supported distance learning as moderately effective. Students' satisfaction with online learning was positively related to their perceived professional commitment. In times of health crisis, faculties should consider students' perceived quality of nursing education and attitudes toward future profession to promote appropriate professional identity.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277198 |
| spellingShingle | Maša Černelič-Bizjak Petra Dolenc Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown. PLoS ONE |
| title | Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown. |
| title_full | Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown. |
| title_fullStr | Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown. |
| title_short | Relationship between nursing students' attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 lockdown. |
| title_sort | relationship between nursing students attitudes toward nursing profession and online learning satisfaction during covid 19 lockdown |
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