Emergency preparedness: supporting continuity of teaching and learning in nursing education (a mini review)
List of Authors
  • Khin Thandar Aung

Keyword
  • emergency preparedness, nursing education, online learning, emergency remote teaching

Abstract
  • Natural disasters, human disasters like global pandemic diseases, natural disasters, man-made tragedies, war conflicts, and social crises have disrupted the education of 75 million students globally. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education has been overwhelmed by 1.53 billion learners out of faculties and 184 country-wide school closures, and also, 87.6% of the world's total enrolled learners are impacted (Education Cannot Wait -ECW, 2020). A lot of institutions have to cancel all face-to-face classes, including labs and other learning experiences, and then move their courses into an online mode to help in preventing the spread of COVID-19 virus. As the result, the research question came out that how emergency preparedness for students to continue their education during this pandemic period. This mini-review paper will discuss emergency preparedness in education to continue student's learning through online learning and how online learning effects on nursing education.

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