Final-year nursing students called to work: Experiences of a rushed labour insertion during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gómez‐Ibáñez, Rebeca; Watson, Carolina; Leyva‐Moral, Juan M.; Aguayo‐González, Mariela; Granel, Nina

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102920

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“…The current study revealed the perceptions of final-year pre-registered nursing students volunteering as frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the factors influencing their decision to volunteer, the role of their professional identity as nurses to volunteer, and strategies to improve future volunteering uptake and processes. While the exploration of healthcare students’ perceptions and experiences of volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic is not new [ 8 , 9 , 14 , 15 ], this study contributes to the current literature by demonstrating what worked well, and the efforts to improve future operational processes when recruiting students as frontline healthcare workers to ease manpower constraints.…”

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“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical students in Demark and the United Kingdom were mobilized as temporary residents, ventilator therapy assistants, or nursing assistants [ 7 ]. Similarly, final-year nursing students in Spain were deployed to work in hospitals to reinforce staffing levels, often remunerated similarly to nursing care assistants [ 8 ]. These students felt highly committed to volunteer and worked as nurses despite the uncertainty and non-completion of their nursing course [ 8 ].…”

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“…Similarly, final-year nursing students in Spain were deployed to work in hospitals to reinforce staffing levels, often remunerated similarly to nursing care assistants [ 8 ]. These students felt highly committed to volunteer and worked as nurses despite the uncertainty and non-completion of their nursing course [ 8 ]. However, the willingness of students to join the workforce was dependent on factors such as a sense of duty, perceived risk of infection, personal health, lack of protocol and knowledge, and perceived preparedness and skill competency required to execute volunteer duties [ 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”

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To Volunteer or Not? Perspectives towards Pre-Registered Nursing Students Volunteering Frontline during COVID-19 Pandemic to Ease Healthcare Workforce: A Qualitative Study

Seah

Liaw

et al. 2021

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COVID-19 has caused a shortage of healthcare workers and has strained healthcare systems globally. Pre-registered healthcare students with training have a duty of care and can support the healthcare workforce. This study explored factors influencing the willingness of final-year nursing students to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of professional identity in volunteering as healthcare workers, and strategies to improve future volunteering uptakes and processes. A qualitative study using focus-group discussions was conducted. Final-year nursing students who volunteered, students who did not volunteer, and lecturers who supervised student volunteers were recruited. Interviews were conducted online, video-recorded, and transcribed verbatim. A thematic analysis was used. The themes were “wavering thoughts on volunteering”, “bringing out ‘the nurse’ in students through volunteering” and “gearing up to volunteer”. Findings suggested the need to look beyond the simplicity of altruism to the role of professional identity, operational, and motivational factors to explain nursing students’ decision to volunteer and their volunteer behavior. Providing accommodation, monetary and academic-related incentives, supporting the transitionary phase from students to “professional volunteers”, promoting cohesive and positive staff–student volunteer relationships, and establishing a volunteer management team are strategies identified to improve volunteering uptake and operational processes. Our findings advocate strategic partnerships between hospitals/communities and academic institutions in providing various healthcare services during pandemics.

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To Volunteer or Not? Perspectives towards Pre-Registered Nursing Students Volunteering Frontline during COVID-19 Pandemic to Ease Healthcare Workforce: A Qualitative Study

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“…Another study that supports these findings is a cross-sectional study done by Huapaya et al (2015) conducted in Peru, where 77% agree to such statements on moral obligations. Similarly, final-year Spanish nursing students also expressed their feelings of commitment and moral responsibility to society in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic (Gómez-Ibáñez et al, 2020). From these results, it can be said that moral obligations among healthcare students know no nationality, and moral obligation can be seen among these future healthcare professionals worldwide.…”

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Willingness of university nursing students to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brunei Darussalam

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Background: Volunteering among nursing students has become a valuable resource during an outbreak to help alleviate the strain in nursing staff shortages. However, evidence of willingness to volunteer is scarce, particularly in Asian countries.Objective: To study Bruneian university nursing students’ willingness to volunteer during a pandemic in Brunei. Methods: An online cross-sectional study was conducted at Universiti Brunei Darussalam from January to February 2021. A self-administered questionnaire was used to measure willingness factors, including motivational factors, barriers, enablers, and level of agreement to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sub-group inferential analysis was applied. Results: 72 participants were included in this study. 75.0% of whom were willing to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors that influenced the willingness of nursing students to volunteer were marital status (p <0.001), year of study (p <0.001), altruism (p <0.001), personal safety (p <0.001), and knowledge level (p <0.001). Conclusion: Nursing students are an invaluable resource, and they are highly willing to be part of disaster management. Training and planning should prepare the nursing students for disaster or pandemic readiness and integrated them into the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Align with this, safety aspects of nursing students during volunteering should also be considered, including the provision of childcare assistance, sufficient personal protective equipment, vaccination, and prophylaxis to the volunteers.

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“…However, during the pandemic RNs as well as nursing students experienced severe stress caused by increased work schedules (alongside their studies) as well as decreased work schedules caused by COVID-19restrictions. [5,6] Globally, nursing students express stress, anxiety and uncertainty about how to approach the present pandemic situation. [1,[7][8][9] Therefore, knowledge about how to support learning nursing digitally from home is vital.…”

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Learning nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The importance of perceived relatedness with teachers and sense of coherence

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Paulsby

Torbergsen

et al. 2021

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Background and objective: In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic infected populations worldwide. To limit the spread, many countries declared stay-at-home orders. Teachers were suddenly obliged to teach and facilitate learning online, whereas students had to manage online education alone from home. Within self-determination theory (SDT), the need for relatedness is considered crucial for personal growth, well-being, motivation and learning, whereas sense of coherence (SOC) is a salutogenic health concept explaining humans’ coping with stressful situations. The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of teacher relatedness as well as SOC, including the concepts of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness, among nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: Survey data were collected from 329 nursing students at a large university in Norway. Twelve hypotheses of the associations between teacher relatedness, SOC and perceived learning were tested by means of structural equation modelling (SEM) using Stata.Results: The SEM yielded an acceptable fit (χ2 = 177.60, p = .000, df = 80, χ2/df = 2.22, RMSEA 0.063, CFI = 0.96, SRMR = 0.048), showing significant, positive relationships between the latent variables of teacher relatedness, SOC and perceived learning. Eleven out of the twelve hypotheses found support, showing both direct and indirect relationships between the latent variables.Conclusions: The study indicates that caring and close teachers seem very important for nursing students’ learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students do not experience such a teacher relationship, resulting in difficulties studying and learning under crisis. Knowledge about how teachers may mobilize care and close relationships with nursing students is important for students’ learning during a pandemic situation when teaching go digital.

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Final-year nursing students called to work: Experiences of a rushed labour insertion during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 66 publications

References 27 publications

To Volunteer or Not? Perspectives towards Pre-Registered Nursing Students Volunteering Frontline during COVID-19 Pandemic to Ease Healthcare Workforce: A Qualitative Study

To Volunteer or Not? Perspectives towards Pre-Registered Nursing Students Volunteering Frontline during COVID-19 Pandemic to Ease Healthcare Workforce: A Qualitative Study

Willingness of university nursing students to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brunei Darussalam

Learning nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The importance of perceived relatedness with teachers and sense of coherence

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