Resilience: One part of a larger toolkit for managing stress

Mental health nurses deliver safe and recovery-oriented healthcare to people experiencing serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or complex behavioural issues (Stewart et al., 2022). Although mental illness comprises some ten percent of the global burden of disease (Stewart et al., 2022), there are only 3.8 mental health nurses, on average, for every 100,000 people across 158 countries worldwide (World Health Organization, 2021). These statistics suggest that mental health nurses are a limited resource and, therefore, under pressure.