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- Title
A CRITICAL-INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING PROGRAM FOR HOSPITAL-BASED HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL.
- Authors
Spitzer, William J.; Burke, Laurie
- Abstract
The article highlights that stress associated with dramatic, emotionally overwhelming situations, known as "critical incidents," can overcome professionals' normal coping mechanisms, particularly following the injury or death of colleagues, loss of life after extraordinary and prolonged professional interventions, actual or potential threats to professionals' well-being, or emotionally charged crises such as sudden and pediatric deaths. The effects of critical-incident stress on health care professionals can pose potentially life-threatening hazards to patients, families, or other staff who rely on the competent delivery of timely, complex, and safe interventions. Professional intervention that addresses occupational stress of hospital personnel becomes crucial to safeguard quality patient care; to maintain employee health; and to reduce organizational costs associated with malpractice litigation, employee turnover, and use of employee health care benefits because of work-related illnesses or injuries.
- Subjects
JOB stress; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; EMOTIONS; SOCIAL workers; MEDICAL care; HOSPITAL personnel
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 1993, Vol 18, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/18.2.149