MedCity News December 18, 2023
Applications for registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurse licensure too often contribute to this stigma and prevent nurses struggling with mental health issues from getting needed help.
The pandemic rages on—just probably not the one that you are thinking of right now.
There is currently a mental health pandemic in the nursing and healthcare workforce. Rates of burnout, stress, anxiety, depression and suicide are higher in nurses than in the general population. This phenomenon has been associated with turnover (which is worsening the current nursing shortage) and preventable medical errors, the third leading cause of death in America.
Many of the reasons for this mental health pandemic are well-documented, including system issues such as short staffing, work overload, long...
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