Clinicians in high-acuity hospital settings experience chronic distress due to the secondhand trauma experienced at work. Chaplains are often responsible for providing staff support to address this distress. One form of staff support is emotional debriefing after critical events. There are few publications about emotional debriefings. It would benefit chaplains to engage in research and discovery regarding emotional debriefing and create a standard model for chaplains to use in staff support.
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