Effect of Mobile-based learning Intervention on Clinical Competence of the Internship Nursing Students during The COVID-19 Pandemic

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University, Egypt.

2 Lecturer of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt.

3 Assistant professor of Community Health Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

4 Assistant Professor Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt

Abstract

Background: Clinical competency of internship nursing students is a vital element for hospitals' survival to ensure the quality of care provided and patients’ satisfaction. COVID-19 pandemic had great effect on students learning process all over the world. The Aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of a mobile-based learning intervention on the clinical competence of the internship-nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Quasi-experimental research design was applied. A convenient sample of all available internship-nursing students who were training at five hospitals in Mansoura city, Egypt were included (248). The Clinical competence Questionnaire (CCQ) was used to evaluate the clinical competence. Results revealed that there was marked increase in total competence rate of the studied internship-nursing students; high competence rate represents 96.8% in post-test instead of 56.9% in pre-test. Conclusion: During COVID-19 Pandemic, the mobile-based learning intervention had a high positive effect on the clinical competence of the internship-nursing students. The results of the study recommended including the distant learning methods in the learning process of the nursing students.

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 13, Issue 2
June 2022
Pages 2146-2154

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