Forbes December 4, 2021
“It begins with trust,” says Andrew Penn, registered nurse and associate clinical professor at UC San Francisco’s School of Nursing.
Penn is describing how nurses can be naturals at providing care for people in psychedelic states.
“I think sometimes that nurses are often really the glue that holds the healthcare system together,” he says, adding that there are more nurses than any other type of specialty in the American healthcare system.
Quite a few more, in fact, with over 3.8 million registered nurses (RNs) nationwide, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, compared to a little over 550,000 physicians currently in the U.S.
“So, you know, in some ways we’re sort of in plain sight, which makes us...