A Study to assess the impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on the academic performance among the Nursing students at selected nursing college, Salem

Background: Novel corona virus (covid-19) is an infectious disease spreading all around the world that has a globally significant morbidity at present. Nurses as frontline care providers in hospitals and community are exposed to a major risk. The major impacts of covid-19 on nursing education were unequal access to online distance learning, disruption of academic calendar, teaching and learning gap and so on. This study aims to assess the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on the academic performance among nursing students. Objectives: To assess the level of impact of COVID-19 on academic performance among the Nursing students. To associate the level of impact of COVID-19 on academic performance among the Nursing students with their selected demographic variables. Methodology: A Quantitative approach -Non experimental, descriptive research design was used in this study. The sample consists of 37 nursing students, selected by consecutive sampling technique. Result: The major findings of this study is majority 21 (57%) samples had more impact on academic performance due to COVID-19 pandemic and 16 (43%) samples has less impact on academic performance due to COVID-19. Conclusion: This study concludes that majority of the B. Sc (N) students were had more impact on academic performance due to COVID-19.