Assessment of the Nursing Educator’s Role during (Covid-19) Outbreak in Sudan
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2022
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جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري
Abstract
Abstract:- Background: The novel coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China on
December 2019 in patients brought as atypical pneumonia.
The World Health Organization (WHO) consider the
coronavirus epidemic a pandemic. Nurses teachers have a
vital role in guarantee that the next generation of nurses is
processed to catered the growing demand for healthcare
services. Aim: study objective to assess the nursing
educator’s role during Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in
Sudan 2020.
Methods: cross-sectional descriptive community based
study conducted among nursing educators at Sudan from
April to July 2020. The researchers used an electronic
questionnaire created by Google Forms was used of total of
67 participants from various nursing colleges in Sudan
there was 33 governmental university distribution at the
country . SPSS version 25 was used to analyze the data,
and the results were presented as frequency and
percentages as well as chi square tests. The level of
statistical significance was set at p = 0.001.
Results: regarding the types of communication of the
participants with their students the majority of the
participants (87.2%) were communicated indirect (online),
while (35.8%) stated that the lack of resources is limited
their role .Also the study showed that the majority of the
participants (67.2%) their university located in state of
Khartoum. Some of the participants (36.3%) reported fairly
satisfied regarding their role were played.
Conclusions: The study conclude that the role of Sudanese
educators is inadequate and severely poor in all areas
.Recommendations: The nursing curriculum need to
include more regarding who to compact with the crises
situations. Educators and students have important role
regarding the community