*2.5. Participants*

Overall, 75 students were enrolled in clinical practice before and during COVID-19. One hundred and thirty-one nursing student responses were provided, resulting in about an 82% response rate before and during COVID-19. Out of the responses, 99 (75.6%) identified as female and 32 (24.4%) identified as male (See Table 2). The majority (60.3%) of the nursing students were in the Medical-Surgical clinical training area. In addition, 36 (27.5%) nursing students were in Level 5 (first year of clinical practice) of their academic year, and 32 (24.4%) were in Level 10 (last year of clinical practice also known as internship year) of their academic year. Nursing students in Level 5 participate in up to 2 clinical practice courses while Level 9 and 10 nursing students are in full clinical practice internships. The higher the level, the higher the clinical practice competency needed and the higher the necessary complexity. Only surveys that were fully completed were calculated in our response rate, therefore we had no missing data within the response for our analysis.
