Business Insider (8/20, Akhtar) reports that nurses “are more likely to take their own lives,” researchers found in “what they said is the first nationwide investigation into nurse suicides in more than 20 years.” The study, published in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, “found a suicide incidence of 11.97 per 100,000 people among women who are nurses, versus 7.58 per 100,000 for American women in general,” and “39.8 per 100,000 people, versus 28.2 per 100,000” for men.
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— “Suicides among nurses are on the rise. Here’s why one of America’s fastest-growing jobs is facing a major crisis, “Allana Akhtar, Business Insider, August 20, 2019