A Qualitative Research on Students' Perspective on Distance Nursing Education

This study was conducted to determine the problems related to distance education in applied education such as nursing. The population of the research consisted of 30 students studying at a state university nursing department. 63.3% of the students who participated in the study stated the distance education were insufficient. 70% of the students stated that the videos are not sufficient/do not reflect the reality. 80% of the students stated that they had limited opportunities in internet and computer access, 83.3% of the students stated that the exams and homework given do not reflect the actual evaluation, instead, the application parts of the lessons should be repeated when face-to-face education is started. In order to reduce the identified problems related to distance education, universities should constantly update their distance education infrastructure systems for theory courses and practical courses should be repeated in an accelerated manner in the following term.