Nursing students' experience and training in healthcare aid during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic health crisis, in some countries such as Spain, nursing students have offered to provide health assistance, but the role they have played, their degree of preparedness to face the situation, and what must be improved in their training to be ready for these situations is unknown.

Objective

Describe the experience and perceptions of students of the Nursing university degree during their participation as health support in the COVID-19 health crisis in Spain.

Design

We conducted a cross-sectional survey study.

Method

503 students enrolled in the 4th course of the Nursing degree in Spain during the months of March and April 2020. An online questionnaire was developed, based on a pilot study and distributed through the Nursing

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Martinez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8013356 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature