"If you have a cumulative distressing environment where there are few resources or little awareness of what's going on and what nurses are experiencing, you're going to have these nurses leave the workforce and that's what we're seeing." — Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor, director of the PhD in Nursing program, Purdue University School of Nursing Nurses are struggling so much with their own psychological stress and trauma from the harsh effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the conditions it has caused, that their hospitals and health systems must provide the necessary support to heal, a trauma researcher says. For this week's lead story, I spoke with Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN, an associate professor and director of the PhD in Nursing program at Purdue University School of Nursing, about how nurse and hospital leaders must create a trauma-informed culture to help their nurses handle and heal from trauma. | 