Background: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, suspension of face-to-face learning and clinical placements for nursing students in Spain led us to expand and adapt clinical training to a teaching role. Final-year nursing students conducted an online clinical training focused on developing their health education competence.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of final-year nursing students who completed their clinical training in a teaching role practicum during the pandemic outbreak (March-June 2020).
Background: Final-year nursing students in Spain augmented the health care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Purpose: To understand the lived experience of nursing students who joined the health care workforce during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak (March-May 2020).
Method: Qualitative content analysis of the reflective journals of 40 nursing students in Spain.