Improving simulation-based training is the focus of a Navy program of research titled Debriefing Distributed Scenario-Based Exercises (DDSBE). DDSBE is intended to optimize training effectiveness by demonstrating improved methods and technologies for assessing team and multi-team performance, diagnosis routines, and debriefing templates. A main objective of the DDSBE program in spiral 1 was to ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the translation and adaptation methodology for the Measure of Parental Style, a self-report instrument developed originally in English, following the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research guidelines, comparing this to other methodologies used for the same purposes. METHOD Translation and Cultural Adaptation group International Society for Phar...

The National League for Nursing (NLN) developed four unfolding cases. A demonstration project was created by junior- and senior-level faculty with the simulation specialist by modifying an NLN unfolding case to include advanced practice nurses. Educators desire their students to think critically but often do not realize that students must pass through five stages of development in critical thin...

In the wake of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, more than 9,000 counselors went to New York City to offer aid to rescue workers, families, and direct victims of the violence of September 11, 2001. These mental health professionals assumed that many New Yorkers were at high risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and they hoped that their interventions would mit...

When a person experiences a traumatic event, s/he may have a strong emotional reaction. This reaction may disrupt the person's ability to function at the scene of the incident or later, and may range from a normal stress response to the symptoms indicative of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Psychological debriefing is an immediate intervention used following a traumatic experience that p...

Background & aim: Childbirth is a stressful event in women’s lives, and if a mother perceives it as an unpleasant event, it can influence her postpartum mental health. Depression is a common mental disorder, which can has serious consequences depending on its severity. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of debriefing and brief cognitive-behavioral therapy on postpartum depres...