05/30/2021 The Truth about Nurse Suicides
Nurses have a higher rate of suicide than the gender-matched general population at baseline. Quantitative data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Violent Death Reporting System have been previously analyzed to reveal that nurses have more known job-related issues prior to death by suicide. However, no known study has focused on the context of those job-related problems prior to nurse suicide.
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This study has profound importance) pl especially about the increase in nurse suicides (now exceeding physician and others, plus the connection between nurse suicides and employment issues. Substance Use Disorder is not a moral failure but a chronic disease. Until nurses believe this truth, the conspiracy of silence will continue yooverwhelm recovery for too many nurses.
