The challenges of “learning on the go”: A qualitative study of final-year Spanish nursing students incorporated to work during the first Covid-19 pandemic

The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a shortage of qualified nurses in Spain. As a result, the government authorized the hiring of senior students.To explore the perspectives of a group of final-year nursing students who were hired on the basis of a relief contract for health professionals during the first COVID-19 outbreak, regarding their learning process and their mixed role as students and novice nurses.A qualitative exploratory...