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Nursing students' and faculty members' experiences of online education during COVID-19 across Southeast Asia: A Photovoice study

Kunaviktikul W 1 , Ang E 2 , Baridwan NS 3 , Bernal AB 4 , Dones LBP 5 , Flores JL 6 Show all authors , Freedman-Doan R 7 , Klunklin A 8 , Lee WL 9 , Lin CC 10 , Luk TT 11 , Nguyen ATH 12 , Nurumal MS 13 , Setiawan A 14 , Sumaiyah Jamaluddin TS 15 , Huy TQ 16 , Tungpunkom P 17 , Wati NDNK 18 , Xu X 19 , Shorey S 20

Affiliations 

  • 1 Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; Panyapiwat Institute of Management, Thailand. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 2 Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 3 Department of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
  • 4 College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 5 College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 6 College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 7 Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 8 Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 9 Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 10 School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong; Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation, Hong Kong. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 11 School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 12 Faculty of Nursing, Phenikaa University, Viet Nam. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 13 Department of Critical Care Nursing, Kulliyyah of Nursing, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 14 Department of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 15 Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Kulliyyah of Nursing, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 16 Vietnam Nurses Association, Viet Nam; Thang Long University, Viet Nam. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 17 Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 18 Department of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 19 School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. Electronic address: [email protected]
  • 20 Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: [email protected]
Nurse Educ Today, 2022 Apr;111:105307.
PMID: 35217457 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105307

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary disruptions to education systems globally, forcing a rapid switch from conventional to online education. Although some qualitative studies have been carried out exploring the online education experiences of nursing students and faculty members during the COVID-19 pandemic, to our knowledge, no study has used the Photovoice approach.

OBJECTIVES: To explore the experiences of nursing students and faculty members as related to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

DESIGN: A descriptive qualitative design using Photovoice was adopted.

SETTING: The study took place across five countries and one city in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong).

PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-two nursing students and twenty-eight nursing faculty members who participated in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

METHODS: Each participant submitted one photo substantiated with written reflections. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from institution-specific ethics boards.

RESULTS: Three themes and eleven sub-themes emerged from the data. The three main themes were: 1) Psychological roadblocks to online education; 2) Developing resilience despite adversities; and 3) Online education: What worked and what did not.

CONCLUSION: Through Photovoice, the reflections revealed that nursing students and faculty members were generally overwhelmed with the online education experience. At the same time, participants were satisfied with the flexibility and convenience, opportunities for professional and personal development and safety afforded by online education. However, concerns over academic integrity, practical skills and clinical competencies, engagement and participation, the duality of technology and social isolation out-shadowed the advantages. It is worthwhile to explore the concerns raised to enhance online education across the nursing curriculum.

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