Virtual and online learning during COVID-19: the experience of community children's nursing students.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in significant changes to education delivery. For many university programmes this has included a move from face-to-face to virtual and online learning and teaching.

Aim: To gain insight into the experiences of students undertaking the community children's nursing specialist practitioner programme during the academic year 2020-21, when most learning and teaching was delivered using virtual and online methods as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.