"What's nice about this program is it's very user-friendly for the staff as well as leadership and what I also like about the program is we're all speaking one language." — Maria Lariccia Brennan, CNO, Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center As COVID-19 continues to take its toll on nurses, some hospitals have adopted the Stress First Aid (SFA) program, which teaches nurses how to identify stress in other nurses or colleagues and then respond appropriately to de-escalate the stress reaction before there is a need for more formal intervention. For this week's lead story, I talked to SFA advocate Maria Lariccia Brennan, chief nursing officer (CNO) of Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center, about why the program is so beneficial to nurses. | 