Background: Supporting resilience for nursing student success is critical to future health care. This study explored the meaning and process of resilience among Generation Z traditional baccalaureate nursing students.
Method: Using a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenology approach, 13 Generation Z nursing students with the lived experience of resilience were surveyed and interviewed.
Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify nurses' responses to psychological trauma and strategies to support nurses' healing and resilience during COVID-19 and generate creative integrated understandings of nurses' responses to psychological trauma and strategies supporting nurses' healing and resilience during COVID-19.
Background: COVID-19 exacerbated trauma already experienced by some nurses. Nursing leadership called for action to improve nurses' mental health and resilience.