Objectives: Resilience is a complex concept that is extensively drawn upon in higher education, nursing included. The objective is to examine the concept of resilience and its use within nursing education.
Methods: Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis was used to explore this concept.
Results: The current focus on fostering resilience in undergraduate nursing education predominantly focuses on educational interventions to support one's ability to self-care continues to be pervasive within the nursing literature. More recent dialogue encourages a more holistic approach that examine interventions from both individual and structural perspectives.
Conclusions: Recommendations for future research are to examine the synergy between individual, contextual, and structural factors to support resilience in nursing students.
Implications for international audience: Based on the concept analysis, resilience is contextual. Therefore, nurse educators may support and foster nursing students' resilience by having increased awareness of both individual and structural perspectives of resilience.