Bachelor of Science in Nursing faculty perceptions of distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the modality of in-person learning, forcing people to migrate to virtuality abruptly with scarce or null previous training, which makes it necessary to analyze the perception held by professors and their satisfaction as regards the development of activities in this format. Objective: identify the perception held by Nursing Degree professors at the University Institute of the Argentinean Federal Police of Buenos Aires Autonomous City, Argentina and their satisfaction as regards virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study was designed. The sample was made up of 23 professors (71,87 % of the target population) who answered an instrument composed of 21 questions with choices of closed answers. Results: the average age was 52,00 years (DE: 10); 87 % were women, 79,9 % have children, 56,5 % are professors teaching third-year subjects of the syllabus, and they have a degree; 65,2 % of them mentioned that the main difficulty they found regarding virtuality was the resistance put up by students to turn on their cameras and 43,5 % perceives the grades obtained in virtuality to be equivalent to those in in-person learning. Those having a postgraduate qualification (p:0,005) and those wishing to continue with virtual activities after the isolation (p:0,041) were found to have higher levels of satisfaction. Conclusions: an average level of satisfaction with virtual learning was found, and professors generally hold positive perceptions. Most of them wished to continue with this modality once the COVID-19 pandemic was over