Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on professional identity development of intern nursing students in China: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Clinical experience plays a vital role in the development of the professional identity (PI) of nursing students. China has applied a strict zero- COVID health policy in combating the COVID-19 pandemic since December 2019 and studies have been conducted in different places of China to explore PI development of nursing students during the pandemic time among the intern nursing students who are on clinical practices. This review study aims to synthesize the previous studies and provide a comprehensive picture of the impacts of the pandemic on the PI development of intern nursing students.

Methods

Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage scoping review framework was used. Combinations of keywords were used to search relevant articles in both Chinese and English databases publish

SUBMITTER: Luo WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9560130 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature