Discussing the growing mental health crisis for nurses during National Nurses Week | ABCNL

Two nurses specializing in mental health discuss how to address and improve the mental health of nurses struggling with burnout and depression amid stress from the pandemic.

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[mycocoaone]

Retired RN with PTSD from being beaten and strangled by a patient. Nursing awareness week was always important to me.

[aurelio-reymilaorcabal]

I live on the other side of the border, in Canada, my RN wife retired 6 yrs early, wearing that Covid masks 8 to 12 hrs daily is hard, not to mention the stress of wondering if you gave that medication correctly.

[sreddy]

Prayers for the nurses that i heard on doctor radio who were burned out and wanting to quit including the one whose mother called in an said medicine was ruining her life. Cried that day to hear it.

[enckidoofalling]

Our health period. I have cancer and need dentures. Have two jobs, and can’t make a living. We deserve guaranteed health and dental care period. I may have to get cobra this summer again. Last time I needed heart surgery. That was in 2009 when my job fresh out of school went bye bye.

[JustANurse]

I'm a registered nurse in the state of Michigan. Based upon my experience, there are nurses in this state suffering from untreated mental illness and it makes no sense. I've seen nurses who are suffering from persecutory delusions, aggressive, and manipulative in the workplace. This results in poor patient outcomes and a more sick public. It also translates into high turnover rates, low employee morale, and an inability by healthier colleagues to tolerate the work environment. Last, it interferes with work processes because a mentally suffering nurse has a mind unable to focus on nursing! It translates into them harassing healthier colleagues and ruining the profession. I know nurses involved in privacy invasions involving other nurses! Out of a compassionate spirit, I teamed up with the Michigan Nurses Association to teach us self-care! Still, the mental illnesses of my colleagues effected me. A unhealthy mind, creates unhealthy actions....nurses are not perfect people but they owe it to the profession and the people they serve to get their minds right.

[sreddy]

- Torture -is different from a hard day at work, right gang. Dont let any lawyers or anyone in authority that would crash healthcare for all in society ever, ever try to minimize and not address anything described in the physicians for human rights article describing syria or anywhere in the world- The brave nurse ran out to help the dissidents outside the hospital taken over by a totalitarian gov. What a loss. What a powerful story. That could be here on any day and one day it might be seen. Please thank the wonderful authentic nurses all.

[modelswatch]

After The Pandemic + Mental Health + Criminal Activity

[sreddy]

The duality of the health profession while others are on the other side of that duality will likely crash healthcare...

[cleothalucas]

This is why I'm leaving nursing. Always "do this... do that" with nothing that really helps nurses. You are like a shot-up soldier, with help only available on paper.

[sreddy]

Torture -is different from a hard day at work, right gang.

[kiaharper]

Plain amd simple, no one cars enough to do anything. I'd rather drive a garbage truck than do what i do most days.

[js]

There are many now, that have been subjects of desensitization since it’s 20’s. Maybe should you medical boom. Start by 90/90 your spending of military.

[valeriegreco]

Your thoughtfulness and thoroughness contributed to speeding up my healing process. I wonder what could have become of me if you weren’t the one who handled my case. Thank you for curing my HSV2, Dr Ofenmu YouTube

[gp]

Wow that was a bunch of fluff BS, don’t need a phd to state the obvious. FYI, we do recognize our own stress levels and reach out to our cohorts everyday because we are all suffering the same. You phd folks should have addressed the more complex issue that there is a stigma for nurses asking for help because it can be seen as incompetence and therefore a liability. I was expecting a lot more than awareness of our feelings and patting each others backs…maybe you could have clarified what resources we can expect from our employer, not in the event we need help, but because it’s our right to work in an environment where we feel safe.

[PiaLoveBSNRNCCBTP]

Nurses are the worst patients. If only they would humble themselves and confess they have stress related mental health issues in large measure! You can't heal someone that refuses to admit they need it. I never put my mental health on the backburner...but the mental health of my colleagues and subsequent behaviors has effected me badly and is scaring the mess out of me.