**5. Conclusions**

The psychological impact of the pandemic on nursing students should not be ignored. The well-being of these students is affected by high levels of stress and emotional-based coping strategies. To alleviate the degree of impact, guidelines and strategies should be adopted into current nursing curricula even before the student is in clinical practice. Prioritizing research and policy effort on mental health, stress, and coping strategies of students needs to occur to equip future nursing students with the tools needed to be successful in the field of nursing. However, future research needs to replicate this study on a greater scale across multiple universities across multiple countries. Moreover, using in-depth data collection strategies, such as qualitative interviews or focus groups, in future research would significantly help explain the rationales behind why students adopted one coping strategies over another.
