C. Nurses who have mental illness
It would be reasonable to assume that the prevalence of mental illnesses among nurses parallels that of the general population. It could even be speculated that the realities of nurses’ challenging workplaces, including understaffing and working in intense interpersonal circumstances, might well increase their incidence of stress-related conditions. However, there was a startling paucity of literature found on this subject. It has been included as a sub-theme here, as the few existing references strongly indicated that this issue was most salient to this paper’s topic.