{"title":"Resilience of U.S. Nursing Students: A Theory-Guided Scoping Review.","authors":"Andra Opalinski, Laurie A Martinez","doi":"10.3928/01484834-20240702-05","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Resilience plays a part in how individuals transition from the burnout and stress of an academic program to flourishing in a new professional nursing role. This theory-guided review explored what is known about nursing students and resilience. The long-term aim is to inform evidence-based practice for nurturing resilience of nursing students.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This review used the theory-guided literature review, a knowledge synthesis methodology guided by the society-to-cells resilience theory. This 10-step methodology facilitated approaching the review from the lens of nursing theory.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Resilience research within this population lacks consistent conceptual and operational definitions of resilience and theory-driven research, and practice change questions. Intervention evidence is scarce and addresses limited sub-factors from the society-to-cells resilience theory.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Future research and practice change initiatives should provide consistent and clear conceptual and operational definitions, move from correlational to intervention projects, and target multiple levels of resilience subfactors. <b>[<i>J Nurs Educ</i>. 2025;64(3):145-155.]</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":94241,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of nursing education","volume":"64 3","pages":"145-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of nursing education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20240702-05","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: Resilience plays a part in how individuals transition from the burnout and stress of an academic program to flourishing in a new professional nursing role. This theory-guided review explored what is known about nursing students and resilience. The long-term aim is to inform evidence-based practice for nurturing resilience of nursing students.
Method: This review used the theory-guided literature review, a knowledge synthesis methodology guided by the society-to-cells resilience theory. This 10-step methodology facilitated approaching the review from the lens of nursing theory.
Results: Resilience research within this population lacks consistent conceptual and operational definitions of resilience and theory-driven research, and practice change questions. Intervention evidence is scarce and addresses limited sub-factors from the society-to-cells resilience theory.
Conclusion: Future research and practice change initiatives should provide consistent and clear conceptual and operational definitions, move from correlational to intervention projects, and target multiple levels of resilience subfactors. [J Nurs Educ. 2025;64(3):145-155.].