Poster with medical professionals walking away, promoting nurse suicide prevention awareness with the message: Support Nurses. Save Lives.
Poster with medical professionals walking away, promoting nurse suicide prevention awareness with the message: Support Nurses. Save Lives.
“Nurses are dying by suicide at rates higher than the general population.”
— Davidson et al., 2020.
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Nurse suicide is preventable.

  • Nurse suicide is a workforce safety, mental health, and patient safety issue.

  • Suicide risk among nurses is higher than in the general population, and it has remained elevated for years.

  • Work stress, mental health challenges, physical strain, and substance use often overlap and build over time.

  • Many nurses who die by suicide have already interacted with the healthcare system.

  • The problem is not just awareness. It is whether support is accessible, timely, and effective.

  • Nurse suicide requires early recognition, direct conversations, and systems that make it safe and realistic for nurses to get help.

Get Help Now.

Pink speech bubble with white text stating 'No judgment. Just help'. Dark blue speech bubble with white text saying 'Text, call, chat 988'.

Simply calling or texting 988

or chatting

will connect a person to compassionate care and support for any mental health or substance use-related distress.

www.988lifeline.org

Venn diagram titled '988 and 911: Getting the Right Help at the Right Time.' The diagram shows that '988' connects to mental health and substance use crisis response, suicide prevention and crisis de-escalation, and linkage to local care and treatment resources. '911' connects to medical emergency, fire, crime in progress, and life-threatening situations. Overlapping area labeled 'Whole-Person Care' indicates services that include both connect to mental health and substance use issues as well as emergency response.

Why This Matters

  • Nurse suicide is a preventable workforce and public health issue. Meaningful support includes confidential mental health services, safer work environments, early identification, and practical pathways to care before distress escalates.

  • This campaign helps extend awareness, trusted resources, and practical support across individuals, teams, and organizations.

  • Nurse suicide prevention requires more than awareness. It requires clear language, compassionate action, and real pathways to support.

  • This work helps keep nurse mental health, suicide prevention, and postvention visible, especially during May and on May 12.

This campaign provides practical tools for individuals, colleagues, and healthcare leaders to recognize risk, respond effectively, and create safer systems.

This work is grounded in clinical practice, lived experience, and health system improvement efforts focused on protecting the mental health and wellbeing of nurses.

Learn About THe Campaign

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