Racism-related stress affects resilience among nurses

Racism-related stress can affect nurses’ engagement, performance and practice, according to a recent study by researchers at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. “With racism-related stress, in particular, participants perceived they are affected by both lived and vicarious racism—ruminating over past occurrences, and expecting/worrying that racism will happen to them or other Black/African American people,” the authors wrote in Nursing Outlook. Their survey of a sample of National Black Nurses Association members found a negative correlation between racism-related stress and psychological resilience. (Nursing Outlook article, 6/25/21)