A Scoping Review of the Literature Addressing Psychological Well-being of Racial and Ethnic Minority Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly strained health systems and healthcare workers (HCW's) across the world (Firew, et al., 2020). In the United States (US), waves of critically ill COVID-19 patients overwhelmed hospitals (Sharma, et al., 2020) while, on the frontlines, essential HCW's struggled to provide patient care despite inadequate staffing, extended work hours, working in unfamiliar care settings, and lacking necessary equipment and supplies (Norful, et al., 2021; Mensinger, et al., 2021).
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