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A large number of people have the job title "mental health nurse" or "psychiatric nurse". A majority of those people spend a majority of their time working with
by jdietrich 8y ago
A large number of people have the job title "mental health nurse" or "psychiatric nurse". A majority of those people spend a majority of their time working with the most seriously ill people. For a high-income country, the US has an unusually low number of mental health nurses relative to the overall population; there are more than five times as many mental health nurses per capita in the UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand or Japan.
https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/nursing_atlas_2007.pdf https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/nursing_atlas_200...