Becker's Healthcare May 4, 2023
Nurses have a higher rate of suicide than the general population and often go without mental health treatment due to stigma and regulatory requirements, Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, a nurse scientist at the University of California San Diego, said in a May 3 article on MedPage Today.
Dr. Davidson is a co-author of a new American Academy of Nursing consensus statement, which hopes to improve policies around mental health, substance use disorders and nurse suicide. Her comments were transcribed from a video on MedPage Today’s site.
“Many nurses who die by suicide while being worked up for substance use disorder became addicted originally after being prescribed narcotics for things like traumatic car accidents, fibromyalgia, musculoskeletal injuries related to work and...