Nursing Lecturers’ Readiness to Teach Online in the ‘New Normal’ Post COVID-19 Era

Abstract

As a way of reducing Covid-19's infection rate, Indonesian students, and teachers at all levels of education are forced to undergo online teaching and learning, without much preparation. This also applies to nursing lecturers of associate degree nursing program (D3). This study attempts to find out the readiness of lecturers D3 nursing program to teach fully remote after this pandemic end, and the most associated variable on D3 nursing lecturers' readiness. This is done to anticipate if full online teaching method is still applied by stakeholder in the 'new normal' era. Inferential quantitative with a cross-sectional approach was utilized. The population encompassed 344 actively working lecturers in private institutions of DKI Jakarta and Banten. The sample in this study was taken using accidental sampling technique, and the data were gained using likert-scale questionnaire. This study analyzed using Chi square test. The results showed that half of the respondents (55.4%) had low readiness. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between education (p=0.023). These results can be a basis for making recommendation in support of policies and decisions concerning the implementation of online learning.