{"product_id":"when-the-doors-closed-nursing-education-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","title":"WHEN THE DOORS CLOSED: Nursing Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic","description":"In the spring of 2020, the structure of nursing education changed almost overnight.\nClassrooms emptied. Clinical sites closed. The steady, familiar rhythm of learning in motion—moving between patient rooms, listening, adjusting, trying again—was interrupted without much warning. What had always depended on presence was suddenly asked to continue at a distance.\nThere wasn’t time to prepare for it in any complete way. Decisions came quickly, often without the clarity anyone would have preferred. One day, students were practicing skills in real settings, with instructors nearby to guide and correct. The next, those same experiences were being translated into formats that felt unfamiliar to everyone involved.\nIt wasn’t only a change in method.\nIt changed how teaching felt.\nHow learning was recognized.\nWhat could be seen—and what could not.\nThis book comes from within that shift.\nIt follows a set of fictional characters whose experiences are drawn from a shared reality. The events are imagined, but the conditions are not. The uncertainty, the adjustments, the moments that held and the ones that didn’t—those are rooted in what it was like to try to learn and teach a hands-on profession at a distance.\nThere were times when things worked better than expected. Approaches that adapted. Small moments where understanding still came through.\nThere were also gaps.\nPlaces where the screen created a kind of separation that couldn’t quite be closed. Where participation became harder to read. Where learning, even when it was happening, didn’t always look the way it used to.\nStudents moved through that time without a clear sense of how long it would last, or what would follow them out of it. They were still expected to become nurses—to make decisions, to recognize change, to step into responsibility—even as the conditions around that process kept shifting.\nThat tension stayed present.\nWhat happens to a hands-on profession when it is learned this way?\nWhat carries forward, even after things return to something more familiar?\nThis story stays close to those questions, not to answer them directly, but to remain with them as they unfold.\nIt begins at the moment when what felt fixed no longer was\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0H3TZQB5D\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0H3TZQB5D.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rogers, Robert\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43611891400765,"sku":"BVV.B0H3TZQB5D.VG","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0H3TZQB5D-0.jpg?v=1789249333","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/when-the-doors-closed-nursing-education-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}