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ERIC Number: EJ1294636
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Apr
Pages: 6
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ISSN: EISSN-2165-2554
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Building Resilience in Nursing Students during the Pandemic
Rohatgi, Kylee
Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, v10 p58-63 Apr 2021
As a nursing professor at Goshen College, a small liberal arts college in the Midwest, and a nurse practitioner working at an urgent care clinic, I have realized that there are lessons from the clinic's transformation into a novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center that can be applied to educating future nurses. As nurses, we must adapt to different work environments, everchanging practices as research progresses, and a population whose needs are different now from what they will be in 5 years. These lessons are some of the most difficult that nursing educators need to pass on to students, as the majority of their nursing education occurs in a classroom or laboratory, and nearly all of their clinical experience occurs in a hospital. In this essay, I explore the ways in which I taught students about the resilience that nurses must have and how the transition at the urgent care facility has aided these efforts. For those of us with limited online teaching experience, making hours of lecture videos could have been seen as the safe choice. But doing so would have shortchanged our students: We would not have replaced the students' experience of honing their skills in laboratory or interacting with real patients during their clinical practice. I discuss some of the methods my department used to combat this tendency to simply record videos; for example, my students recorded themselves physically assessing family members. In addition to demonstrating our adaptability in teaching, the nursing faculty showed our students firsthand how resilient their professors have been. Several of us practice, and a handful, including me, have increased our hours on the front lines of this pandemic in part because we feel the duty to help whenever needed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indiana
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