VALUE OF CLINICAL DEBRIEF
Life support training programs for healthcare providers, including Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), state that the providers should debrief after a resuscitation. If a provider is not familiar with the debriefing component of AHRQ’s TeamSTEPPS (2019), the principles of Crew Resource Management, and if the facility has not incorporated a formal, structured debriefing program into its clinical setting, it is difficult to conduct a clinical post-resuscitation debrief.
The AHRQ (2019) acknowledges that while it may be challenging to implement real time clinical debriefing, it is a crucial component of quality improvement, systems learning, and clinical education. Debriefing is essential in the hospital setting because it leads to the prompt identification of system and equipment issues which contributes to improved patient safety and decreased preventable errors. In addition, it leads to increased productivity and promotes inter/multidisciplinary team functioning, communication, and cohesion (McQuaid-Hanson, & Pian-Smith. 2017). Debriefing is an important component of high reliability. |