What is it about?
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Healthcare workers are faced with a high risk of infection and to provide a sufficient workforce. Nurses are the most vulnerable group of healthcare professionals, as they provide direct care to patients. The pandemic transformed the profession of nursing into a challenging entity, pressuring nurses physically and mentally, as they worked long hours nursing highly demanding patients to compensate for the existing shortage of the manpower. During the pandemic, nursing students, especially intern nursing students, were among frontline HCWs in COVID-19 clinics and clinics and vaccination units due to the insufficient number of nurses available. However, compared to nurses, NSs are more susceptible to infection because they have less clinical experience and weaker preventive techniques vaccination units due to the insufficient number of nurses available. This paper describes the views of intern nursing students on the COVID-19 vaccine and evaluates their experiences in the COVID-19 vaccination unit.
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Why is it important?
In this study, intern nursing students related their vaccination hesitation to fatalism, existing health problems, previous COVID-19 infections, and the belief that antibodies will provide future protection, and contraindications. Our findings show that the intern nursing students' experience of the COVID-19 vaccination unit, shows that nurses and nursing students, who are primary vaccine practitioners, are highly effective in influencing vaccine acceptance.
Perspectives
I hope this article explains what intern nursing students think about COVID-19 vaccination and COVID-19 vaccination experiences. Nurses are primary vaccine practitioners, therefore, we believe that intern nursing students, who will be the future HCWs, that their positive views towards COVID-19 vaccines had a beneficial effect on the public’s view of vaccination. More than anything else, and if nothing else, I hope you find this article thought-provoking.
Sevcan Topçu
Ege Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: Intern nursing students’ experiences in the COVID-19 vaccination unit and views on the COVID-19 vaccine: A phenomenological qualitative study, Work, April 2024, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/wor-220655.
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