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Podcast: Nurses Living the Good Life
Episode: 9. Nurses in Crisis (Trigger Warning)
Description: TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses suicide, crisis and mental health.
Nurses in Crisis:
Your mental health matters.
One doctor commits suicide in the U.S. every day -- the highest suicide rate of any profession. And the number of doctor suicides -- 28 to 40 per 100,000 -- is more than twice that of the general population, new research shows. The rate in the general population is 12.3 per 100,000.
Within the health care community, [women]Â nurses were found to be roughly 70% more likely to die by suicide than [women]Â doctors.
Suicide incidence among nurses was 17.1 per 100,000, compared to 8.6 per 100,000 among wom...