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Wellness in the Workplace
A well anesthesia professional is one who uses healthy, adaptive coping strategies to combat stress and fatigue at work and home. At work, a healthy fit-for-duty CRNA is integral to providing safe patient care. See below for healthy workplace tools and resources to handle disruptive behavior, impaired colleagues, adverse events and career transitions; tips to be safe, manage stress, avoid burnout, think positively, advocate for a well workplace, and get involved.
AANA Practice Considerations - Promoting a Culture of Safety and Healthy Work Environment
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Help for Drugs/Alcohol
Wellness in the Workplace Topics
Adverse/Critical Events
Career Transitions
Competition in the Workplace
- AANA Resources
- Additional Readings
CRNA Fitness-For-Duty
Ergonomics
Fatigue/Sleep
Impaired Colleagues
Production Pressure
- AANA Journal
- Transfer of Care in Perioperative Settings: A Descriptive Qualitative Study, Oct. 2018
- Norwegian Nurse Anesthetist Perceptions of Professional Development and the Influence of Production Pressure, Oct. 2017
- High Fatigue Scores Among Older Dutch Nurse Anesthetists, June 2014
- The Normalization of Deviance: Do We (Un)Knowingly Accept Doing the Wrong Thing?, Aug. 2010
- AANA NewsBulletin
- Production Pressure in the Operating Room, Jan. 2019
- Supporting Organizational Resources
- International Journal of Nursing Sciences
Safe Practices/Workplace Violence
- AANA Professional Practice for nurse anesthesia practice resources, including safety
- Workplace Shootings: CRNAs Surviving as the First and Second Victim, Sept. 2019 AANA NewsBulletin
- Active Shooter: Are We Complacent? guest editorial, Dec. 2016 AANA Journal
- Disaster Preparedness and CRNA Wellness, Nov. 2018 AANA NewsBulletin
Additional Resources
- American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Tool Kit of Mitigating Violence in the Workplace
- Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality: Patient Care and Staff Wellbeing Inextricably Linked
- Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety (CSPS): endorses safe surgery principles with participation from all members of the multidisciplinary perioperative care team to achieve optimal patient outcomes and safe workplace practices.
- Joint Commission:
- Medscape Nurses: Active-Shooter Preparedness Requires Operating-Room Provisions
- MedPage Today: San Bernardino Nurse: 'Heaviness' of Tragedy Lingered
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- OSHA's Worker Safety in Hospitals, Caring for our Caregivers
- Outpatient Surgery: Ideas That Work: Safe Rooms
- Stop ED Violence from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the ENA
Advocate for a Safe Workplace
- American Hospital Association's report: A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health
Sexual Harassment
"Harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex." Source: U.S. EEOC
- Victim of Sexual Harassment?
- AANA: Getting Peer Assistance Help for Yourself and Others
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN):
- Free and confidential 24/7 National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-HOPE or chat with a trained staff member.
- Sexual Harassment Resources
- Know Your Rights
- TIME'S UP: Find Help and Legal Defense Fund
- Sexual Harassment: A Prevalent Employment Issue Facing CRNAs by Mark J. Silberman
- Harassment in the Workplace by Gene A. Blumenreich, JD
- Sexual Harassment in Healthcare
- AANA Wellness Milestone: Sexual Harassment in the OR - One CRNA's Experience - January 2020
- Association of American Medical Colleges: Sexual Harassment in Medicine
- Managed Care: Health Care, It Is #YouToo
- MedPage Today: Time to End Hush-Hush Treatment of Sexual Harassment
- The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing: Sexual Harassment in Healthcare
- Workplace Resources
- AANA: Promoting a Culture of Safety and Healthy Work Environment
- Navex Global: Investigating Sexual Harassment: Checklist & Best Practices
- State Specific Laws/Training: Nat'l Conference of State Legislatures: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Stress and Burnout
Substance Use Disorder Workplace Resources
Working with a Disability
How to Improve Workplace Wellness
Think Positive!
Wellness Milestone Articles
Join the AANA Wellness Movement
- State Health and Wellness Resources
- Contact your state association to volunteer
- Consider serving on an AANA committee
- Advocate for the profession
Advocate for a Safe Workplace
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
- Is Your Work Environment Healthy? free workplace assessment tool
- Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments
- American Hospital Association: A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health
- The Joint Commission Guide: Improving Patient and Worker Safety
- Becker's: Patient Care/Staff Wellbeing Inextricably Linked
Note: Links to external sites are provided as a convenience and do not imply endorsement. AANA Health and Wellness is not responsible for content on these websites but hopes they help support your well-being.