A new paradigm of practicum learning management to promotes nursing practice performance of students in the situation of COVID-19

Abstract

The disruptive changes in the health system and global society during the COVID-19 outbreak many waves in the past 3 years, it affects in Thailand and around the world. The dimensions of nursing education are also affected. Teaching and practicing in nursing students on wards were interrupted and slowed down due to the necessity to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019. Hospitals that serve as training centers for nursing students have also adapted to take responsibility for caring for COVID-19 patients. There are unprecedented numbers of them, and it is also becoming a high-risk place to practice for students. While nursing students themselves do not have sufficient knowledge, skills and expertise to cope and protect themselves in this situation, whether caring for themselves or their patients. All nursing institutions therefore have revolutionized the paradigm in teaching and learning by using various platforms on the Internet that can design teaching and learning in a variety of method. Especially in practical subjects that students must apply theoretical knowledge to practice until learners achieve desirable competencies. Under the constraints of the aforementioned circumstances, it can be regarded as an opportunity and a challenge for cooperation in driving teaching and learning management at both the institutional and the network to help maintain the mission of producing nurses. Professional competence that achieves the requirements of the Nursing Council and the expectations of society and people receiving services. This academic article therefore aims to present literature related to new paradigms in nursing education management, namely clinical instruction that responds to nursing and midwifery practice competency, blended learning, an assessment of blended  learning outcomes and the recommendations that extended to the professional council academy of nursing, nursing professors and graduate users which will be useful in applying , develop and extend to innovations in teaching and learning in unexpected crisis situations in the future.