Table 5.

Examples of traumatic and non-traumatic work-related stressors.

	Traumatic situations		Non-traumatic situations
	NICU nurses	Midwives	NICU nurses	Midwives
Working environment	Resuscitation in the delivery room of a newborn at term (in connection with poor management of childbirth)	A long and significant deceleration of the fetus' heartbeat during the ultrasound without the possibility of calling for help or stopping the current examination because no nearby alarm	Unable to support (help) patients and especially the parents for lack of time	Lack of staff for emergencies
Nursing/midwifery care	Emergency intubation - very difficult	Neonatal resuscitation	Fear of having to take care of a case that is too difficult, not to be in control of the situation, not to observe important signs that should make me worry about the state of health of the patient	Shoulder dystocia
Dealing with death and dying	Death of a term baby due to asphyxia	Maternal death	–	–
Case management	Resuscitation of a child of 6 months, deceased (child shaken by the father)	Death threats made by the husband of a patient giving birth	A parent who becomes aggressive	Having to manage a complex patient living in social and psychological precariousness
Others	Massive digestive hemorrhage when working with adults	–	Clinical teaching (teaching and evaluation at the same time)	Waiting to manage a situation that was announced without being able to act (receiving a telephone call and waiting that the patient arrives)