Coping strategies and resilience in students should be supported by nursing curricula

Commentary on: Drach-Zahavy A, Goldblatt H, Admi H, et al. A multilevel examination of nursing students’ resilience in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional design. J Adv Nurs 2021. Implications for practice and research There is a need to ensure that student nurses are not unduly exposed to the risk of developing psychological distress before entering the workforce. Future research should focus on the most effective resilience building interventions for student nurses. Context COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating in several domains of human life. One area that has been impacted is the healthcare workforce (which also includes nursing students undergoing training). Drach-Zahavy et al’s study examined nursing students’ stress and coping with the pandemic. The authors focused on how different levels of resilience have enabled nursing students to improve their well-being and reduce strain symptoms during the pandemic.1
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