Emotional and Mental Well-Being 

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​Nurse anesthetists, like other health care professionals, can experience occupational hazards of stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Self care is important, along with learning healthy coping mechanisms in both your personal and professional life.​

From the Mental Health America website: "Not everyone experiences mental illness—but everyone has mental health. Instead of focusing only on people who have already reached a point of crisis, we try to help people understand their mental health needs as early as possible.” 

See the collection of research and published articles for the topic of stress and burnout among anesthesia professionals. 

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

"Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. ACEs can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. ACEs are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness, and substance misuse in adulthood. However, ACEs can be prevented." (CDC: ACEs)

Preventing ACEs can help children and adults thrive and potentially:

  • Lower risk for conditions like depression, asthma, cancer, and diabetes in adulthood.
  • Reduce risky behaviors like smoking and heavy drinking.
  • Improve education and employment potential.
  • Stop ACEs from being passed from one generation to the next.

For more information and additional resources, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) webpage.

Mental and Emotional Well-Being Resources

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." Aristotle Onassis

Meditation / Mindfulness

"You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer." Eckhart Tolle

Supporting Maternal Mental Health

Up to 1 in 5 women will suffer a maternal mental health disorder

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