Nurse Suicide Under The Radar

With this article, MedPage Today begins a series on suicides among nurses, investigating the reasons, reactions from colleagues, and what can be done to prevent them. Some individuals' names have been changed or withheld at the request of family members.

In late November 2018, a nurse in Southern California took her own life.

"Dana" arrived by ambulance, unresponsive, at the emergency department where she had worked for nearly 20 years, and was cared for by her own colleagues before a transfer to a nearby hospital's critical care unit.