The Level Of Academic Burnout Among Nursing Students During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The pandemic situation of COIVD-19 has made school system done through online learning both in basic education level and high education level. Students, teachers, lecturers, and parents have to meet a significant change and face new challenges in online learning activity. Consequently, there are many of them who experience dullness, stress, and even burnout. The purpose of this study is to measure the level of burnout among university students in facing the online learning activity during COVID-19 pandemic. The design used in this study is descriptive quantitative method with total sample size of 188 nursing students. The result shows that the level of burnout among these students is high burnout (72.34%), moderate burnout (9.04%), and low burnout (18.62%). This shows that online learning activity carried out due to the situation of COVID-19 pandemic has caused exhaustion (burnout) among university students. It is an important job for education institutions to keep on exploring the method of online learning in order to prevent dullness in students so they can maintain their academic achievement in a good grade.