Kathleen Thimsen (Nursing) published "Resilience, the 6th Vital Sign: Conceptualizing, Contextualizing, and Operationalizing All Six Vital Signs" as a co-author for Health, a Scientific Research journal. The study explores resiliency as the sixth vital sign, defined as the ability of the immune system to respond to attacks and defend effectively against infections and inflammatory stressors, and psychological resilience is the capacity to resist, adapt, recover, thrive, and grow from a challenge or a stressor.
