Psychological Problems of Nursing Students in Facing Clinical Practice During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/978-2-38476-022-0_99How to use a DOI?

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disaster; Covid-19 pandemic; psychological problems; nursing clinical practice disaster; Covid-19 pandemic; psychological problems; nursing clinical practice

Abstract

Professional and vocational education institutions as health personnel education institutions are expected to be able to produce ready-to-use health workers. The educational process, the clinical learning load is quite large in vocational education, even the entire professional education process is clinical. During the Covid-19 pandemic, clinical learning does not mean abolishing, hybrid learning must be taken to achieve skills and competency targets. The purpose of this study was to determine the psychological condition of nursing students in undergoing clinical practice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research design used was a survey research with a sample of nursing students who underwent clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic as many as 148 respondents from the Tanjungkarang Health Polytechnic and the Faculty of Nursing, Riau University. The variables studied were students’ psychological problems using the instrumentself reporting questionnaire (SRQ) 20. Univariate analysis was used to assess the distribution of psychological problems among respondents. The results showed that most of the respondents had psychological problems as many as 93 respondents (62.8%), while 55 respondents (37.2) even though they were included in the category of normal/normal response range, most of the answers showed mild anxiety. This condition shows the importance of paying attention to psychological problems in disaster conditions, including non-natural disasters, the Covid-19 pandemic.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sulastri
AU  - Siti Fatonah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/13
TI  - Psychological Problems of Nursing Students in Facing Clinical Practice During the Covid-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st UMSurabaya Multidisciplinary International Conference 2021 (MICon 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 887
EP  - 895
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-022-0_99
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-022-0_99
ID  - 2023
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