Research shows that nurses are at particularly high risk of developing stress-related mental health problems as a result of their work. This project will explore expanding an existing online resiliency course to nursing students. Nursing students will be provided with a five- to eight-hour online resilience resource, which uses self-reflective journaling, video narratives, recommended strategies, wiki exercises, and self-assessment tools.

Using a repeated measures design, the researchers will take measures of the participants prior to using the resource and multiple times after. Two metrics will be used to assess resilience and coping strategies, and two metrics will be used to assess participants’ self-reported current state of emotional well-being. The researchers will assess decay of skills through repeated measures after using the resource, during the remainder of the nurses’ academic program.