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emotional DEBRIEFING.

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 06:31.

Authors:

Huff, Charlotte

Source:

H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Volume 80, Number 8, p.p38 - 42 (2006)

URL:

http://search.ebscohost.com.liboff.ohsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=22058095&site=ehost-live

Keywords:

HOSPITALS -- Employees; MEDICAL personnel; RESIDENTS (Medicine); MEDICINE -- Practice; HOSPITAL administrators; Services for

Abstract:

The article discusses the psychological support provided by hospitals to their residents and clinicians. Increasingly, though, hospital administrators recognize that clinicians' needs, whether they involve a medical error or sadness following a rash of patient deaths. Meanwhile, individual hospitals are launching their own initiatives. Addressing job stressors, though, is complicated by clinicians' reluctance to even admit weakness. INSET: TALKING AND TRANQUILITY HELP NURSES DECOMPRESS.