Helping the helpers: The development of a critical incident stress management team through university/community cooperation

Linton, John C.; Kommor, Martin J.; Webb, Clifford H

doi:10.1016/s0196-0644(05)81844-x

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“…This allows maximal educational benefit from the process and prevents repeated inefficiencies with future patients. To varying degrees all resuscitation teams sustain emotional traumas following resuscitations and the process can be cumulative [65,76,77]. Debriefing or defusing processes can also occur during the critique phase that allows team members to begin to manage personal grief reactions.…”

Section: Critique Phasementioning

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Resuscitation Team Organization for Emergency Departments: A Conceptual Review and Discussion

Mellick¹,

Adams²

2009

TOEMJ

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Abstract:In this article we discuss code or resuscitation team organization. The goals of this article are to define the questions surrounding code team organization and structure, discuss how organization can make a difference, review resuscitation systems and processes, and discuss aspects of team structure and performance. Issues of team performance include teamwork, leadership, communication and safety.

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Section: Critique Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Debriefing or defusing processes can also occur during the critique phase that allows team members to begin to manage personal grief reactions. This process has been formalized as the critical incident stress debrief (CISD) borrowed from the disaster medicine experience [65,[76][77][78].…”

Section: Critique Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Resuscitation Team Organization for Emergency Departments: A Conceptual Review and Discussion

Mellick¹,

Adams²

2009

TOEMJ

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“…For instance, social workers, ambulance personnel, accident and emergency nurses, and clergy reported the need for pre-emergency response training in the areas of coping strategies and mental health outcomes (Gibson & Iwaniec, 2003). Regarding first responders, Linton, Kommer, and Webb (1993) suggested that advanced training and preparedness can help first responders manage their own negative mental health reactions, which result from providing an emergency response. However, randomized controlled trials have not been utilized to assess the efficacy of pre-emergency training as an intervention.…”

Section: The Pre-emergency Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…During the post-emergency phase, researchers have focused on mental health outcomes that occur among victims and survivors, although recently they have begun to investigate mental health outcomes in individuals who rescue and treat victims and survivors of such incidents (Linton et al, 1993). For example, researchers have investigated the mental health effects of the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires among a volunteer mental health team providing a disaster response (Berah, Jones, & Valent, 1984) and family physicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hodgetts, Broers, Godwin, Bowering, & Hasanovic, 2003).…”

Section: The Post-emergency Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

An Examination of Evidenced-Based Practice Interventions for Public Emergencies

Patterson

2009

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics identifies numerous ethical standards that describe the responsibilities for the social work profession to the broader society. Mentioned among these ethical standards is the responsibility for social workers to provide appropriate professional services in response to public emergencies. However, few empirical studies describing effective interventions for public emergencies are available. This article reviews empirical evidence that can be used to guide social work practice in response to public emergencies, the methodological issues that present challenges for evidence-based research during public emergencies, and provides suggestions for the delivery of professional social work services in response to public emergencies considering the limited empirical evidence.

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“…Alguns investigadores que têm utilizado estes profissionais de saúde como sujeitos de estudo referem o stresse ocupacional como fenómeno inerente à profissão, em que o trabalho sob pressão de tempo, as frequentes decisões que envolvem a vida ou a morte, os problemas com os colegas e a necessidade de elevado conhecimento técnico e cientifico são factores de stresse a considerar (CHRISTIE, 1997;LINTON et al;1993). Na tentativa de sistematizar os factores de stresse mais frequentes para os profissionais de emergência médica pré-hospitalar, Bledsoe et al (1997) referem que aspectos como a multiplicidade de responsabilidades (a necessidade de prestar socorro às vitimas, lidar com os agentes da autoridade, bombeiros e família), as tarefas inacabadas, trabalhar sob permanente pressão, a ausência de deslocações consideradas como sendo profissionalmente estimulantes, o elevado esforço físico e emocional a que estão sujeitos, a falta de reconhecimento profissional e o facto de terem de lidar frequentemente com a morte e sofrimento são primordiais na compreensão da problemática em estudo neste tipo de profissionais de saúde.…”

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Vulnerabilidade ao Stresse em Profissionais de Emergência Médica Pré-Hospitalar

Amaro¹,

Jesus²

2008

Mudanças - Psicologia da Saúde

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RESUMO:O stresse tem sido uma problemática amplamente estudada pela comunidade científica em geral, nas mais diversas áreas do saber, em que os profissionais de saúde têm sido um grupo alvo preferencial desses mesmos estudos. Todavia, os estudos efectuados com os profissionais de emergência médica pré-hospitalar em Portugal são ainda extremamente reduzidos, embora a problemática se encontre mais desenvolvida em países como os EUA, Canadá e Japão. Neste sentido, pelas características próprias desta profissão, interessa compreender de forma mais aprofundada em que medida se encontram estes profissionais vulneráveis ao stresse, sendo este o objectivo principal deste estudo. A amostra foi constituída por 161 profissionais de emergência médica distribuídos pelo território nacional dos quais 42,2% possuem a categoria profissional de TAE/TAS, 31,7% são enfermeiros e 26,1% são médicos, tendo sido utilizada uma amostragem por clusters, seguida da técnica de amostragem aleatória. Os resultados indicam a existência de médias globais baixas de vulnerabilidade ao stresse. Todavia existem diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre a vulnerabilidade ao stresse e a categoria profissional, sendo os TAE/TAS aqueles que apresentam valores médios mais elevados, bem como relativamente à deprivação de afectos e rejeição, subjugação e condições de vida adversas. No que diz respeito às alterações do sono, verificou-se a existência de diferenças estatisticamente significativas nas dimensões "Perfeccionismo e intolerância à frustração", "Condições de vida adversas", "Dramatização da existência", "Subjugação", e "Deprivação de afectos e rejeição", assim como para a totalidade do instrumento de medida do stresse. Os sujeitos de estudo que não praticam exercício físico apresentam valores médios de vulnerabilidade ao stresse mais elevados.Palavras-chave: Psicologia da saúde. Stresse. VULNERABILITY TO STRESS IN PRE-HOSPITAL MEDICAL EMERGENCY PROFESSIONALSABSTRACT: Stress has been a problem thoroughly studied by the scientific community in general, in most areas of knowledge, in which the health care professionals have been a preferential target group of those studies. However, the studies that took place with the pre-hospital medical emergency professionals in Portugal are still extremely reduced, although this seems to be a problem that is more evident in countries such as the USA, Canada and Japan. In this sense, due to this profession's own characteristics, we are interested in understanding the deep extent to which these professionals are more vulnerable to the stress, since this is the main objective of this study. The sample was constituted by 161 professionals of the emergency medical staff throughout the national territory of the which 42,2% possess the professional category of TAE/TAS, 31,7% are nurses and 26,1% are physicians, having been used a sampling by clusters, following by the technique of random sampling. The results indicate the existence of low global averages of vulnerability to stress. However, there are statistica...

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Helping the helpers: The development of a critical incident stress management team through university/community cooperation

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Resuscitation Team Organization for Emergency Departments: A Conceptual Review and Discussion

Resuscitation Team Organization for Emergency Departments: A Conceptual Review and Discussion

An Examination of Evidenced-Based Practice Interventions for Public Emergencies

Vulnerabilidade ao Stresse em Profissionais de Emergência Médica Pré-Hospitalar

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