Health care professionals experience grief when caring for children with life-threatening conditions. Harriet Lane Compassionate Care, the pediatric palliative care program of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, created an action plan to support health care professionals; one intervention-- the bereavement debriefing session - was specifically aimed at providing emotional support and increasin...

The experiential learning process involves participation in key experiences and analysis of those experiences. In health care, these experiences can occur through high-fidelity simulation or in the actual clinical setting. The most important component of this process is the postexperience analysis or debriefing. During the debriefing, individuals must reflect upon the experience, identify the m...

BackgroundThis study explored the impact of virtual asynchronous debriefing after a simulation game on nursing students’ perceived anxiety and self-confidence for engaging in clinical decision-making (CDM).MethodAn experimental design compared with traditional face-to-face debriefing.ResultsVirtual resulted increased reduced CDM related to gathering data, seeing big picture knowing acting. Asyn...

People who experience serious traumatic events may become distressed and are at risk of developing psychological illness. Because of the perceived need to ease the distress and to prevent chronicity, various forms of psychological therapy have been deployed. One such therapy is psychological debriefing. Some claim that it is helpful, others claim it may not do any good but at least it does no h...

Based on the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists (ASA-SED), a sedation training course aimed at improving medical safety was developed by the Japanese Association for Medical Simulation in 2011. This study evaluated the effect of debriefing on participants' perceptions of the essential points of the ASA-SED. A total of 3...

Digitalization is a topic that affects most of the industries as well as the society overall today. Within this topic, the use of mobile technology devices, such as smartphones, allows organizations to perform tasks in an anytime-anywhere situation – usually called enterprise mobility. The Swedish Police Authority see the potential of this technology shift that is happening and are currently fo...

BACKGROUND Internship and residency are difficult times with novice practitioners facing new challenges and stressors. Junior doctors may experience burnout, a syndrome that encompasses three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced personal accomplishment. While there is some existing literature on the prevalence of burnout in junior doctors, there are few studies on int...

OBJECTIVE To identify literature concerning the effectiveness of psychological debriefing (PD) and analyse results according to different criteria of success and different uses of the intervention format. METHOD Literature search was made in databases PubMed, PsycInfo and Psychlit. Twenty-five studies were selected for a thorough description. Forty-two studies provided additional information....