TY - JOUR
T1 - Transitioning to Full Online Teaching During Covid-19 Crisis
T2 - The Associate Degree Nurse Faculty Experience
AU - Iheduru-Anderson, Kechi
AU - Foley, Jo Anne
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wishes to acknowledge all the nurse faculty who took part in this study and the Central Michigan University, especially the College of Health Professions for providing the time release for the completion of this study. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - As the COVID-19 crisis escalated in early 2020, schools of nursing and nursing programs in the United States and around the world shut down. Nurse faculty were forced transition to online teaching in a short time. Descriptive phenomenology was used to explore the experiences of associate degree nurse faculty who transitioned to online teaching during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inductive thematic analysis was performed on the interview data from 41 faculty teaching at associate degree nursing programs in the U.S. The findings of the study are presented under 6 main themes: stressful/overwhelming, feeling emotionally and physically exhausted, support, new knowledge and growth under pressure, new opportunities for nursing education, and leadership in times of crisis. To prevent the worsening of the nurse faculty shortage and help educate nurses for the future, nurse educators must be supported and recognized for their work during this period and beyond.
AB - As the COVID-19 crisis escalated in early 2020, schools of nursing and nursing programs in the United States and around the world shut down. Nurse faculty were forced transition to online teaching in a short time. Descriptive phenomenology was used to explore the experiences of associate degree nurse faculty who transitioned to online teaching during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inductive thematic analysis was performed on the interview data from 41 faculty teaching at associate degree nursing programs in the U.S. The findings of the study are presented under 6 main themes: stressful/overwhelming, feeling emotionally and physically exhausted, support, new knowledge and growth under pressure, new opportunities for nursing education, and leadership in times of crisis. To prevent the worsening of the nurse faculty shortage and help educate nurses for the future, nurse educators must be supported and recognized for their work during this period and beyond.
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - Midwestern USA
KW - associate degree nursing
KW - descriptive phenomenological design
KW - nurse mental wellbeing
KW - nursing education faculty
KW - nursing workplace
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118490906&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/23333936211057545
DO - 10.1177/23333936211057545
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118490906
SN - 2333-3936
VL - 8
JO - Global Qualitative Nursing Research
JF - Global Qualitative Nursing Research
ER -