Op-Ed: We Must Break the Silence Around Nurse Suicide
Janie Heath is the dean of the UK College of Nursing. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 16, 2021) — While the COVID-19 pandemic rages on with new variants, the urgency for Kentucky nurses to stay on the front lines now extends to a massive vaccine campaign. Just like Florence Nightingale and Mary Jane Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse during the Crimean war, nurses today are working 24/7 to get the mission accomplished. Although the practice settings may change from a critical care unit one day and the next to a large parking lot tent, football stadium or drive-through clinic, the shepherding of publi...