Building the Concept of Nurturing Resilience.

•Resilience is the ability to bounce back to an original, fundamental state of calmness and peace after adversity.•Nurses are in a pivotal position to facilitate normalcy after adversity.•Nurturing resilience is developing connections that support acceptance and tempers reactivity when faced with hardships.•Understanding the patterns of resilience and its process enables nurses to nurture resilience and reduce adolescent distress.