According to Catherine A. Stubin, PhD, RN, assistant professor at Rutgers University – Camden (Camden, NJ), there is a “mental health crisis in nursing.” In 2024, research from Degreechoices, a higher education research group found that 38% of nursing students experienced depression. That is an increase of 9.3% since 2019. Stubin went on to say “nursing is a very rigorous, difficult, psychologically and physically demanding profession. If students don’t have the tools and resources to adequately deal with these stressors in nursing school, it’s going to carry over into their professional practice.” This is not a new problem, but nursing schools are finally sitting up and taking note. Nursing school…
