A shift to post-pandemic clinicals: Clinical training and education

The COVID-19 pandemic and imposition of stay-at-home orders and remote education/work arrangements had a significant impact on clinical training and education that will extend beyond the pandemic. All healthcare programs required direct patient care as part of the curriculum to ensure appropriate mastery of skills and fulfill licensing requirements.   In current clinical training and education there are time and hands-on requirements for direct patient care being 50 -75% of the curriculum requirement based on specific states within the USA. With the advent of COVID-19 hospitals shift to protect vulnerable patients by banning visitors and in most cases eliminating the clinical rotations that satisfied these patient care requirements.   While the majority of nursing institutions had no choice but to shut down during this time, our institution sought

Author(s): Sandra Pham

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