Nursing Instructors’ Perceptions of Teaching Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic

During the global COVID-19 pandemic, to decrease the risk of viral spread, universities in the United States were forced to transition traditional classroom learning to online learning formats. Instructors who were teaching face-to-face classes had to urgently transition those courses to all-online. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore university nursing instructors’ lived experiences of transitioning from on-campus teaching-learning modality to online teaching-learning modality during the COVID-19 pandemic. An interpretative phenomenological analysis design was used as the research method. Purposeful sampling was used and six nursing instructors from the U.S. were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol. Three key themes emerged from the study, (1) “What is happening?”, (2) Going all online, and (3) Returning to a new normal. The findings led to three practical solutions for universities to implement if a future crisis were to force nursing instructors to transition on-campus teaching-learning modality to an online teaching-learning modality.

Grantor dc:publisher

Creighton University

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Deeds, Carey

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Moon, Paul

• Covid-19
• Mass Crisis
• Nursing Instructor Perceptions
• Online Teaching
• Teaching

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is retained by the Author. A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Repository record dc:identifier.uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/153937

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/153937