INTRODUCTION

What has become ‘normal’? The lock downs, quarantines, masks, washing

hands, taking vitamins and nutrient-rich food to nurture health, covering a coughing

mouth and sneezing nose, physical distancing, and the omnipresent support

technology are a “must” to continue for a lifetime. These and more compose the

new normal. It has also interrupted universities and facilities including the studies of the
future front liners which are the nursing students.

The COVID-19 pandemic is overwhelming the working and

consequences of school systems. Some of which had already stressed in

many ways. This is valid around the globe and impacts all children, but to

varying degrees based on various factors including the country/region where

they live, as well as their ages, family histories and degree of access to

certain “substitute” educational resources during the pandemic.

To the children, teachers, the shutdown of classrooms, compound by the

associated public health and economic problems, presents huge challenges.

We lack the structures to ensure successful teaching and learning through the

closure and to have the safety net help that many children enjoy in

kindergarten. Our public education system was not designed or equipped to

deal with a crisis like this. Although we do not know the particular impacts, we

do know that the academic success of children since the pandemic is

declining, along with their improvement on other developmental skills. We

also recognize the educational inequalities are increasing, considering the

different forms in which the recession has expanded current social disparities

and how these disparities impact schooling and educational results. As a

result, many of the children who suffer the most to learn successfully and

excel in school under regular conditions are now finding it difficult to obtain

successful teaching, perhaps unlikely in some situations, and they are facing

delays that would need to be paid for in their schooling.

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic still exist and no clear vaccines or drugs

are available to cure this outbreak. We need to live up to the current normal; if

not controlled, when viruses are continually emerging, we need to live with the

epidemic. However, in the research and production of vaccines, and currently

in clinical trials, scientists are also on their way.

Most countries around the world have briefly closed educational facilities

to curb the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic and eliminate infections.

In some nations, responses such as group lockdown and group quarantine

have driven students and teachers to research and work from

home,contributing to the delivery of online learning platforms. However, the

implementation of online learning has raised numerous threats, challenges

and challenges for both teachers and students, especially nursing students. In

the higher education sector,HEI’s have been granted academic freedom by

the commission on Higher Education and should introduce available distance

learning, e-learning and other alternate delivery modes for students. (CHED,

2020). several institutions have elected to enforce their own teaching policies.

Under the current norm, the condition poses a particular obstacles to the

decision-making process of each educational chief. Therefore, this research

provides possibilities for reacting challenges, challenges and patterns that

exist and will exist in the future due to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the

delivery of standard if instruction to every school.

 Nowadays, because of the lockdown program introduced by the

government, we all hide in our houses. Learning does not, however, halt.

During the pandemic, numerous nations worldwide have adopted diverse

responses to continue the schooling process-the implementation of distance

learning. As school is a public where crowds are likely and children are

vulnerable , there is a need to improve policies in terms of teaching delivery to

include online learning sites with opportunities. The Department of Education

emphasized that it would not simply mean that the teachers and learners go

to schools, and study and prepare in the classrooms.

Similarly, in the higher education institutions, new normal would be virtual

classrooms. The Commission on Higher Education suggested to strengthen

online platforms and blended learning such as but not limited to google

classroom,messenger,zoom, edmodo, Facebook and Youtube (CHED,2020).

the implementation will, however, raise such problems for students with

restricted access to the internet, no devices and the poor. The Philippines has

the lowest internet access in Asia, according to Akamai’s (2017) report. In

addition, such problems will be disparities in equity, protection and welfare of

students, impaired academic quality and weak evaluation outcomes.

Change on the grading system, assessment and evaluation of student’s

performance will also be a challenge to every administrator. In addition,

laboratory activities in sciences and other subjects that require performance

would be limited to paper and pen test, unless schools will require students to

be physically present to be assessed through performance tests.

Today’s medical educators are facing different challenges than their

predecessors in teaching tomorrow’s physicians. Typically, every nursing

student has a plan for their academic career but no one would even imagine

their plans being disrupted by a pandemic. Many nursing clinical rotations

have been canceled or suspended while others have been moved to COVID-

19 testing sites. Senior nursing students did not all graduate due to the

suspension of in-person clinicals. Some nursing students are concerned for

job opportunities after graduation as most healthcare companies instituted a

hiring freeze due to the pandemic.