Beyond The Mask: Innovation & Opportunities For CRNAs
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Working as a nurse anesthetist can be a highly emotional and stressful position as you constantly deal with pressure to perform. That’s why there’s an emphasis being put on health and wellness by people like Jerry Hogan, DNSc, CRNA, ARNP-BC, who is the program director at Rush University. He joins us to talk about this topic and ways that CRNAs and SRNAs can cope with the stress and PTSD brought on from work.
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Today's rundown:
2:25 – Our guest today is Jerry Hogan, DNSc, CRNA, APRN-BC
3:37– Opening up with the key points on today’s topic of PTSD, Second Victim Syndrome, wellness, and stress.
5:55 – PTSD is divided into three clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, and persistent arousal.
7:28 – How much of this is a societal issue?
10:09 – Anesthesia school is very trying and that’s where wellness starts.
13:13 – Jerry believes that healthy people are people that can control their thoughts and feelings and behaviors.
14:28 – We are the ones responsible for our own well-being.
15:43 – Wellness resources that are available for CRNAs.
17:32 – How do you practice mindfulness?
20:30 – What’s your response when people say we are babying our students?
22:35 – Discussion on cognitive reframing.
26:00 – What Jerry does when his stress level is elevated?
28:31 – Jerry recaps his career and experience in the military, which led him to this field.
34:00 – Final message from Jerry
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