Table 3 Challenges and strategies around ‘the debriefer’
From: Debriefing strategies for interprofessional simulation—a qualitative study
Challenges | Strategies |
|---|---|
Number of debriefers • Increasing number of debriefers • Debriefing with those without adequate debriefing skills • Debriefing with those that you do not know well | • Having a lead or ‘chair’ debriefer • Planning the debriefing amongst the debriefing team prior to the debriefing |
Credibility of debriefer—clinical and debriefing | • Balancing clinical and debriefing credibility—an individual may not have both but you need someone with each in an interprofessional debriefing—having an interprofessional debriefing team may help with this. • Debriefing training • Ongoing coaching and mentoring of debriefers including ‘debrief of the debrief’ |
Automatic assumptions and preconceptions of debriefer towards the learners | • Ensuring awareness of this is raised in training and ongoing debriefer development • Encouraging reflection on the part of the debriefers • Having debriefer from each specialty can assist with getting around this. |
Barriers to getting nursing staff involved in simulation and debriefing | • Limited immediate suggestion—requires work at a trust and national level including at universities during nursing training • This primarily highlights the lack of information of other ‘non-doctor’ professions. |