Abstract

Nursing Students' Experiences of Distance Education, Which is Still Continuing Today due to the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Aim: To investigate and understand the experiences of nursing students towards web-based distance education in Turkey. Background: Due to the pandemic, the rapid pedagogical transition from the traditional face-to-face education approach to distance education is a challenge for nursing education. Method: This study was conducted as a qualitative study with a Hermeneutic phenomenological framework. Results: The analysis of the data revealed three themes: “COVID-19 and the distance education that comes with it”, “barriers to distance education”, and “dilemmas regarding distance education in terms of nursing education”. Nursing students perceived personal, infrastructural, technical equipment, and pedagogical barriers to distance education. Conclusion: In terms of the successful applicability of distance education in nursing education, it is important to be aware of the barriers and to try to reduce them, and to increase strategies that will strengthen clinical learning as an alternative to clinical education, which is an integral part of nursing education.

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