Debriefing Made Easy

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Debriefing Made Easy

• HPSN 08
• Judy Johnson-Russell Ed.D., RN
• METI Clinical Educator
• Professor Emerita
• Texas Womans University
• Dallas, TX

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Objectives

• Discuss the Goals of Debriefing
• Discuss the Importance of Debriefing
• Describe Various Ways to Debrief
• Discuss Techniques of Debriefing
• Describe the Process of Debriefing

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Goals of Debriefing

• Recognize and release emotions built up during
  simulation (Fritzsche, Leonard, Boscia,
  Anderson, 2004).
• Safe place to express feelings
• Mistakes part of learning process (Henneman
  Cunningham, 2005).

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Goals of Debriefing

• Reinforce Objectives of Simulated Clinical
  Experience (SCE)
• Students often have a limited picture of what
  happened while involved in simulation while
  involved, they observe only those parts their
  position allows them to. (Peters and Vissers,
  2004)
• Assists in learning those things they missed
  while engaged in the SCE.

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Goals of Debriefing

• Student questions can be answered, student
  thinking can be clarified, teaching points can be
  emphasized (Fritzsche, Leonard, Boscia,
  Anderson, 2004 Jeffries, 2005).
• Published/standardized guidelines can be reviewed
  (Owen Follows, 2006).

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Goals of Debriefing

• Clarify Information
• Possible for students to manipulate the data in
  such a way that they distort it and make it fit
  into their previous learning.
• Through the debriefing process, faculty can
  insure that new learning is processed correctly
  (Chiodo Flaim, 1993).
• Connect theory to practice

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Goals of Debriefing

• Enhance Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Advantageous to compare different perspectives
  and a joint analysis. This increases student
  understanding (Peters Vissers, 2004).
• Safe place to discuss without constraints of time
  (Mort Donahue, 2004) and pressure of being in
  the simulated clinical experience
• Identify resources (IOM recommendation)
• Encourages Collaboration and Communication

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Goals of Debriefing

• Reflective learning (Mort Donahue, 2004).
• Reflection should relate to objectives
• Self-assessment
• Why acted as they did, correct, differently
• Individually what do they need to work on?
• Feedback from peers
• (Henneman Cunningham, 2005
• Focus on performance, not performer

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Goals of Debriefing

• Link to the Real World
• Link what has been learned in simulated setting
  to real world (Chiodo Flaim, 1993 Fritzsche,
  Leonard, Boscia, Anderson, 2004 Peter
  Vissers, 2004).
• How didactic and theory apply to patient
• Acknowledge the unreality, link to real patients,
  real situations

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Simulation and Debriefing

• Assists with meeting the needs of adult learners
• Assists with meeting the needs of multiple
  learning styles
• Are learner directed rather than faculty directed

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Ways to Debrief

• Number involved, participants and observers
• Separate, together
• Verbal, Written, Presentations,
• Prevent peers not involved from being critical
  and embarrassing those involved.
• If with participants and observers, need ground
  rules to make it a safe learning environment.
• Time available
• Video available
• Number of Faculty
• Availability of Facilities

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Professional Learning Environment
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Debriefing with Video

• Students must know in advance that they are being
  videotaped (Hravnak, Tuite, Baldisseri, 2005),
  how it will be used and when it will be erased
• Signed permissions (Scherer, Bruce, Graves,
  Erdley, 2003).
• Should erase tape after the debriefing (Hravnak,
  Tuite, Baldisseri, 2005).
• If kept for viewing by others, permission needs
  to be provided by students (Hravnak, Tuite,
  Baldisseri, 2005).

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Debriefing with Video

• Should be used with faculty led
  discussion/debriefing.
• Students and faculty review the videotape and
  collaboratively critique the students decision
  making and the outcomes (Hravnak, Tuite,
  Baldisseri, 2005).
• Provides psychomotor and visual learning, plus
  reflection, helps students increase competence
  (Graling Rusynko, 2004).

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Debriefing with Video

• Reminds students of specifics of SCE events.
• Event management and decision making at key
  crisis points can be discussed.
• Counter
• More appropriate actions can be suggested and
  theory to support the actions taken or not taken
  can be discussed. (Hravnak, Tuite, Baldisseri,
  2005)

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Process of Debriefing

• Introduction
• Personal Reactions
• Discussion of Events
• Summary

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Introduction

• Prepares students to actively analyze and
  evaluate self and simulation activities.
• Communicate expectations
• Describe faculty role
• Facilitation vs evaluator
• Confidentiality
• Signed statement
• Safe environment to express feelings and ask
  questions
• Review objectives of the SCE

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Personal Reactions

• Students who have the opportunity to explore and
  deal with the feelings they experienced during
  simulation will be better prepared to deal with
  them in real clinical situations (Henneman,
  Cunningham, 2005)
• Begin with open-ended questions and use
  reflective responses to their statements
• Their responses can guide the discussion of
  events
• Ensure that all in small groups have the
  opportunity to respond

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Discussion of Events

• Encourage students to continually analyze the
  events in depth and their feelings and reactions
  to them.
• Students learn and remember more when they
  participate actively and make their own analyses
  (Duvall Wicklund, 1972).
• How familiar were you with the patients
  condition, treatments, and complications prior to
  the SCE?

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Discussion of Events

• What happened?
• What did they do as a team or individually?
• What was the outcome?
• What would they do differently next time,
  individually, as a team?
• What additional information, knowledge, skills,
  etc. do they think were/are needed in the
  situation, for the future?

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Discussion of Events

• View videotape whenever appropriate
• Or continue with questions from the METI PNCI
  Debriefing Guide.
• Question errors in judgment as in complacency
  with abnormal vital signs or vigilance errors as
  in the failure to attend to changing status.
• Ask about communication with the patient, family
  members, team members.
• Discuss errors with protocols/guidelines

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Discussion of Events

• Have them give specific examples of where they
  prioritized the needs of he patient effectively
• Ask if there were any techniques, interventions,
  or medications they were not familiar with.
• Ask what did they learn new from the SCE.
• Have them give example of information they
  received in class or their readings that became
  clearer to them during the SCE.
• Ask what individually and as a group they feel
  they need to work on.

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Summary

• Goal is to assist the students in looking at the
  overall experience. What they did, what they
  learned, what they have said they want to work
  on.
• Could be done by faculty or by asking open-ended
  questions of the students
• End on a positive note
• In summary, these are the things you identified
  as going well.

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Summary

• These are the things you told me you need to work
  on.
• The take home points include.
• I saw improvement in these areas.
• Thank the students for participating in both the
  SCE and debriefing
• Written Evaluation

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