A nurse’s death raises the alarm about the profession’s mental health crisis

Close friends Joshua Paredes, Michael Walujo and John LeBlanc are working together to set up a crisis help line for nurses following the suicide of their friend Michael Odell in January.

After nearly two years of grueling shifts treating COVID patients, a group of nurses lost one of their closest friends to suicide. They’re determined not to let others fall through the cracks.

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