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CRNA Wellness and Substance Use Disorder Speakers
When planning a state association meeting or anesthesia professional seminar, a health and wellness related lecture can add to continuing education content and also benefit the well-being of your meeting attendees, see the list of topic ideas below. We've also collected names of CRNA speakers-for-hire on a variety of wellness and/or substance use disorder (SUD) topics. Regardless of the topic, it's important to increase awareness of the available online resources at AANA Wellness and AANA Peer Assistance for ongoing support.
Wellness/SUD Topics
- Addiction/Substance Use Disorder: prevention strategies, recognizing the symptoms, impaired colleagues, getting help
- Emotional and Mental Well-Being: stress, depression, burnout, post-traumatic stress disorder, grief, eating disorders
- Physical Well-Being: healthy eating, getting enough sleep, managing chronic pain, kicking smoking, healthy aging, taking care of your eyes
- Spiritual Wellness: meditation and transcendence
- Student Wellness
- Wellness in the Workplace: burnout, compassion fatigue, ergonomic considerations, workplace incivility
CRNA Wellness and Substance Use Disorder Speakers List
Alabama
- E. Laura Wright, PhD, CRNA
- Substance use disorder, return to work, relapse prevention, work pressures and depression, suicide, the addicted patient, drug diversion prevention
California
- Bridget Petrillo, CRNA
- Substance use disorder
Florida
- Jose Delfin D. Castillo III, MS, CRNA, ARNP
- CRNA burnout
- Ryan Shores, DNP
- CRNAWellness, student wellness, and physical well-being in nurse anesthesia education
Georgia
- Martha Kral, BSN, CRNA
- Substance use disorder
Illinois
- Lynn Reede, DNP, MBA, CRNA
- Adverse events, critical incident stress management, addiction, recovery and return to practice
- Bernadette T. Roche, EdD, CRNA
- Substance use disorder, hostile work environments, and adverse events/second victims
Indiana
- Rigo Garcia, MBA, CRNA
- Substance use disorder, addiction and co-dependency, denial and how to overcome this barrier, addiction facts, chronic pain vs. chronic use, treatment of chronic pain in the addict, future drug abuse and treatment options, reporting and identifying obligations for employers, personal story of an addicted CRNA
Maryland
- Jessica Switzman, MSN, CRNA
- Stress to wellness, substance use disorder, healthy coping mechanisms (Note: Jessica is also a certified Yoga instructor)
- LCDR Tiffany Uranga, DNP, NC, USN, CRNA
- Health and wellness, substance use disorder, stress reduction
Massachusetts
- Joshua Lea, MBA, CRNA
- Wellness, presentation on research study of CRNA burnout, work engagement, job satisfaction and turnover, adverse events
- Perry Ruspantine, APRN, CRNA
- Drug diversion and abuse in the anesthesia setting
Minnesota
- LaChelle Wieme, APRN, CRNA
- Addicted anesthetists
New Jersey
- Ferne M. Cohen, MSN, MS, CRNA
- Substance use disorder and wellness
North Carolina
- Linda Stone, DNP, CRNA
- Substance use disorder, workplace wellness, critical incident stress management (CISM), adverse events
- Jennifer Ferguson, MSN, CRNA, and Kat Venden Heuvel
- Team-building in the workplace/nurse anesthesia programs, how groups form and perform (Note: Jennifer is also a certified Zumba instructor)
Ohio
- Jack Stem
- Addiction in the anesthesia professional, stress management for SRNAs and CRNAs, relapse prevention, Suboxone for detoxification and medication assisted treatment of opioid addiction
- Meri Gilman-Mays, DNP, CRNA
- Workplace incivility strategies for dealing with difficult co-workers, emotional intelligence, burnout, resilience, leadership vs. management
South Carolina
- Anthony Chipas, PhD, CRNA
- Stress, substance use disorder, CRNA wellness
Texas
- James R. Walker, DNP, CRNA
Fatigue, stress, substance use disorder
Utah
- Larry Van Atta, CRNA
- Substance use disorder
Virginia
- Gary Hahn, BSN, CRNA
- Adverse events and second victims, substance use disorder, and peer assistance
- Adrienne Hartgerink, DNP, CRNA
- Wellness, stress management, student stress, resiliency, positive coping mechanisms, SRNAs and substance use disorder
- Patti (Bright) Parolari
- CRNA Teams
West Virginia
- Loretta (Ann) Bostic, DNP, MBA, CRNA
- Substance use disorder, stress reduction, peer assistance
Wisconsin
- Major Peter Strube, MSNA, APNP, ARNP, CRNA
- CRNA and leadership, dealing with difficult people, illegal drugs and the anesthesia impact, lateral violence and workplace bullying, technology and internet addiction
Wyoming
- Alison Melle, CRNA
- Understanding substance use disorder and my personal story
Potential speakers, if you'd like to be added to this list, the requirements are AANA membership, commitment to share related information on AANA resources, such as getting help for substance use disorder or finding resources for physical and mental well-being, bullying, adverse events, workplace wellness, student wellness, etc. We also ask lecture content be accurate, current, and appropriately cited. For more info, to request being added, and/or a collection of short URL links to AANA resources, email wellness@aana.com.