KEY TAKEAWAYS Stress First Aid teaches nurses, either peer-to-peer or through leadership, how to identify stress in other individuals and themselves.

The program's peer support model helps healthcare workers recognize and respond to stress in their colleagues and themselves.

First aid for "problem" nursesIn briefs to the court, hospital attorneys wrote: “Where there is no clear mandate on this issue, where employees are not statutorily required to report, this court ...

A project training student nurses in “mental health first aid” has proved so successful that it is to be rolled out across all healthcare courses by a university in the Midlands.

LESSONS in first aid and how to manage serious incidents are to become a standard part of nurse training in future.