Academic Challenges in Nursing Research & Practice in Light of COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 highlights nurses' vulnerability as backbone to health services worldwide .This pandemic disease has resulted in remarkable challenges of nursing research and practice worldwide. During this period, two key aspects became apparent: the value of a highly trained clinical care nurse and the importance of research to understand the disease and identify effective treatments. Challenges facing nursing in research include: Obtaining informed consent from patients, conducting research during COVID 19, the wearing of personal protective equipment, impairing communication, and ethics. In nursing practice these challenges include ineffective communications, discrimination, inadequate knowledge, deficient practical skills, social distancing between nursing students, the experience, moving forward, support the transition of new nurses, protect nursing students and new graduates, balance between theory and practice, blended learning, cultural competence.