Nursing Students' Readiness and Attitude towards Online Learning during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Background: Online learning has emerged as a vital learning modality since COVID-19 pandemic while closing in-person university classes. As nursing education increasingly adopts these online frameworks, students’ readiness and their attitude towards this mode of learning play a crucial role for the successful outcomes. The study aimed to assess the nursing students’ readiness and attitude toward online learning.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 218 undergraduate nursing students of a nursing campus of Tribhuvan University. Data was collected using survey questionnaire on google form which was distributed through link in students' viber, messenger and email. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics.

Results: Out of, 218 students, 79.5% had basic level computer skill, 66.1% had unlimited internet access and 98.2% had their own gadgets for online class. Though, 91.8% of them had favorable attitude towards online education, student’s study habit and motivation on online learning were the lowest scored (mean/SD 3.52±0.54) compared to the ability score (mean/SD 3.80/ ±.6) and time management score (mean/SD 3.6/ ±.56).

Conclusions: It can be concluded that all the nursing students are ready for on-line learning and have basic computer skills for the hardware and software application for their online classes.  Furthermore, they have favorable attitude for taking the online classes.