Debriefing Tools

What are debriefing tools?

Debriefing tools are tools for debriefing! Okay, so there's more to it than that. There are a selection of tools available which have certain pros and cons, and there are right and wrong times to use them. So where to begin?

The following debrief tools are available:

Healthcare Simulation AFTER ACTION REVIEW

TALK

NOMINAL GROUP DEBRIEFING

As shown there are several debriefing tools available, but there is so much more to debriefing than the tool used. More about how to enhance your debriefing and know whether what you are doing is working is covered on our Meta-Debriefing page.

A pragmatic review of debriefing is covered on the Healthy Simulation Debriefing page.

INACSL have produced simfographics covering this an more and are available here.

More learning resources are available below:

References:

Debriefing Techniques Utilized in Medical Simulation - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546660/
https://stel.bmj.com/content/5/Suppl_2/A2.2.info
https://www.talkdebrief.org/startingtotalk
https://www.nursingsimulation.org/article/S1876-1399(16)30129-3/fulltext
https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/7/541
https://debrief2learn.org/pearls-debriefing-tool/
https://debrief2learn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NYULMC-Advanced-Practice-Nurse-Coordinators-Retreat-2016.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tct.12300
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/surgery-cancer/pstrc/lw2222ic_debrief_book_a5.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24096913/
https://www.inacsl.org/INACSL/assets/Image/simfographics-wm/debriefing.jpg