Voluntariado de Enfermería : satisfacción de los estudiantes en un Hospital Escuela durante la pandemia.

Abstract

In Argentina, on March 20, 2020, the "social, preventive and mandatory isolation" and thecessation of face-to-face educational activities are installed. With the aim of dealing with thepandemic, the Hospital launches a volunteering proposal for students of Nursing careers,interrelating an educational institution and a health institution. Before the pandemic, nursingstudents could not attend health institutions as volunteers, but instead did so as part of theirprofessional practices. The general objective was to determine the degree of satisfaction of thenursing students who volunteered at the Hospital Escuela during the pandemic. A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was carried out where data was collected through a survey as aresearch method. A total of 376 responses were collected and analyzed. The results of the analysisallow elucidating the satisfaction of the volunteers in the sample in the three dimensions, thoserelated to the organization, with the infrastructure where they volunteered and with the teaching-learning process. 95.4% of the students valued the experience as positive and would recommendvolunteering. We must highlight as important the learning acquired, the experience, knowing thelabor reality and the motivation to continue developing the activity.