Abstract:
Simulation is one way healthcare workers can learn skills to assist them in balancing conflicting priorities in contemporary health settings. Many simulationists will follow a structured approach or framework to facilitate the simulation debrief phase. These frameworks acknowledge that learning via simulation will mostly take place in the debrief phase. Thus, sufficient time for debrief needs to be allocated to facilitate learning. Research studies report inadequate debriefing of simulation participants causes harm; negating opportunities for quality learning. In 2017 a group of nursing simulationists at Central Queensland University, Australia, developed an innovative two-phase debriefing frame work.
The framework originally involved two separate phases: first learners were provided time to explore emotions and feelings experienced during the simulation and second, learners spent time exploring individual and group clinical performances and developing new understandings. To facilitate the debrief simulationists had learnt a particular set of dialogical techniques. Student and academic participants in the evaluation phase of the project reported the language the simulation debriefers employed was more important to them than the two-phase debrief model. This presentation will introduce the audience to the two-phase model, the dialogical techniques employed and offer attendees take home exercises to learn and practice the dialogical techniques.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the two-phase debrief model.
- Understand the importance of dialogical techniques in simulation debrief.
- Understand several dialogical techniques to assist in facilitating a simulation debrief.