Coronials: Nurses who graduated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Will they be better nurses?

COVID-19, also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is the most serious health epidemic this century, with 5.4 million diagnosed cases in 180 countries and 343,000 deaths worldwide, according to confirmed data for 26 May 2020 published by the World Health Organization (WHO). In December 2019, health authorities in China reported a pneumonia outbreak of unknown origin in Wuhan (Hubei province), and the virus responsible was subsequently named SARS-CoV-2 by the Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Its rapid spread and high associated mortality led the WHO to declare the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. In Spain, COVID-19 is the first major epidemic since the devastating 1918 flu pandemic, and our country has been one of the most affected in Europe. According to data published by the Spanish Ministry of Health for 26 May 2020, more than 236,000 cases have been diagnosed and over 27,000 people have died.