MedPage Today (7/12) reported, “In the first national investigation of nurse suicide in more than” two decades, investigators “found significantly higher rates of suicide among both women and men working in nursing when compared with non-nurses.” The study revealed that “suicide incidence was 11.97 per 100,000 person-years among female nurses and 39.8 per 100,000 among male nurses, both of which were significantly higher compared to women and men in the general population (7.58 and 28.2 per 100,000 person-years, respectively, P<0.001).” The findings of the 14,774-suicide study were published online June 8 in the Annals of Psychiatric Nursing. Related Links:
— “Suicide Risk in Nurses Higher Than General Population, “Shannon Firth, MedPage Today, July 12, 2019