{"id":7016,"date":"2024-06-25T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2024-06-25T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T13:48:16","slug":"is-nursing-school-preparing-their-students-adequately-online-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2024\/06\/25\/is-nursing-school-preparing-their-students-adequately-online-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nursing School Preparing Their Students Adequately Online?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0COVID-19 has changed the entire world in many ways. People have had to get used to wearing masks, online school, small gatherings and more. These all affect the overall morale of people. Schools are turning to extreme measures in order to prepare their students for the outside world. Nicole Quinn (23) and Kayla Noble (20) are both nursing students preparing to join the workforce. They have studied both before the pandemic and during.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Noble poses in her scrubs, excited to begin classes.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Quinn began school in 2016 through a program offered by Dutchess Community College in New York. She graduated in 2018. After that she started the nursing program at Columbia Green in New York. She began in September 2021. She has noticed differences in her school during this time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOur experiences are limited in the clinical setting because many hospital policies are rapidly changing as the pandemic evolves. For example, we have a clinical rotation in the operating room this semester. However, all elective surgeries have been canceled. So some students are left with a free day instead of being able to watch surgeries.\u201d Quinn was able to be in a nursing home many times a week and learned that way. Even though her education changed, she still feels her school is providing her with many opportunities to learn on the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Noble began school at Western Connecticut State University for eight months before moving on to Jersey College in Florida. The largest difference she notes is that everything is connected back to COVID. \u201cBecause it’s so relevant, professors are connecting all of their curriculum to COVID. They are asking their students how everything they’ve learned can be used when dealing with COVID patients,\u201d Noble said. Prior to the pandemic, professors taught with a wider approach that helped her with more scenarios.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Both women agreed that the education prior to the pandemic was much better and it gave them more opportunities to learn both in the field and in class. They both said, however, that this is not negatively affecting their education. \u201cI don’t think my overall education was affected negatively, no. I’m still learning everything I would’ve before the pandemic. But like I said before, the ability to apply our skills and knowledge to anything besides COVID has definitely been hindered,\u201d Noble said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Quinn said that even with the issues with COVID, she would still have made the same choices. She said that everything is going to be worth it when she graduates, even though the work sometimes feels never-ending. \u201cThe hours of studying you put in show when you are able to safely and competently care for your patients. The smiles and the gratitude from the patients you\u2019re taking care of make it worth it. Many times patients are scared and you\u2019re the person that can hold their hand and help them through their situation. And that makes it worth it,\u201d Quinn said. She said the pandemic may have hindered her education, but she is coming out of it much stronger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Noble agreed. Even though the pandemic has impacted her education, she still feels well-prepared to join the workforce. Since most of her curriculum refers to COVID, she believes she will be able to help patients. She urged prospective students not to be afraid. \u201cEveryone is going to tell you how hard and how stressful nursing school is, and they\u2019re completely right. It\u2019s one of the hardest things you\u2019ll experience. However, if you\u2019re truly passionate about wanting to help people, all of that hard work is going to feel so rewarding when you graduate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0COVID-19 has changed the entire world in many ways. People have had to get used to wearing masks, online school, small gatherings and more. These all affect the overall morale of people. Schools are turning to extreme measures in order to prepare their students for the outside world. Nicole Quinn (23) and Kayla Noble (20) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}