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Teaching methods such as online clinical impacts on the quality of the future nursing
supervisee skills training app to improve the cadre that directly influence of future
knowledge, satisfaction, motivation and healthcare. However, to move forward with the
attitudes of students at the clinical setting challenges created by COVID-19 in the field
(McCutcheon et al., 2018), telepresence of nursing education, there is an utmost
technology as a tool to help geriatric necessity to amalgamate the traditional face-
assessment in a clinical situation to improve to-face learning systems with new technology
patient's outcomes (Lister et al., 2018), by creating new educational and
simulation videos to enhance the confidence communication blended methods to deliver
in family-centered care in the existing nursing education curricula. The possibilities,
complex healthcare environment (Coyne et appropriateness and effectiveness of such
al., 2018) and use of online mobile devices in blended strategies need to be reviewed,
assessing patient's pain in the clinical modified and re-implemented to acquire better
learning environment (Alvarez et al., 2017) quality patient care in future from the nursing
have also been identified as effective blended cadre created amidst the critical pandemic.
learning techniques. Integrating digital online
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However, less interaction between the teacher
and learner might be the greatest challenge Gallegos, C. and Nakashima, H., 2018. Mobile
experienced with this strategy and influence Devices: a distraction, or a useful tool to
the nursing education, especially in the engage nursing students?. Journal of Nursing
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