Pocket Book for Simulation Debriefing in Healthcare

This book is a concise manual on debriefing techniques in a clinical educational context. This book provides clear explanations of what constitutes a valuable and effective debriefing, and presents the various approaches that can be used and how debriefing differs from feedback.

This book is a concise manual on debriefing techniques in a clinical educational context. The overarching objective of debriefing is to promote reflection and improve patient safety awareness at an individual and team level. It provides clear explanations about what constitutes a valuable and effective debriefing and the various approaches that can be used, and how it differs from feedback. It includes key recommendations on aspects that directly or indirectly impact on debriefing with various populations of learners such as students or qualified healthcare professionals of various levels of seniority. Indeed, this book can be used as a survival guide for simulation educators and for clinicians during debriefing as well as students from nursing school, midwifery, respiratory therapy school, physiotherapy school, paramedics school, pharmacy school. It is also of interest to educators delivering continuous education to healthcare providers like physicians (medicine, surgery, and psychiatry), nurses, respiratory therapists, clinical psychologists, midwives, physiotherapists, paramedics, and pharmacists.This pocket size book presents the most popular debriefing techniques and hence can be used as a reference manual by educators as to help them achieve their intended debriefing objectives.