The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all nurses and healthcare providers across the world, raising numerous critical questions about the current and future of nursing education. The following editorial attempts to highlight and comment on how to prepare nurses to meet the most critical emerging educational needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nashwan, A.J., Mohamed, A.S. and Kelly, D.R. (2020) Editorial: Nursing Education in the Emergence of COVID-19. Open Journal of Nursing, 10, 595-597. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojn.2020.106040
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