The nurse, a member of a Disaster Medical Response Team, is attending a planning session to review the agenda for relief activities along with scheduling for breaks and ongoing information-sharing meetings
The nurse realizes this session is considered: 1. Preincident preparation.
2. Demobilization.
3. Critical incident defusing.
4. Critical incident stress debriefing.
Preincident preparation.
Rationale: In preincident preparation, knowledge is disseminated to those who will be providing care to victims of disasters. During these sessions, three avenues are planned and discussed that help to decrease the stress associated with a disaster. The first way to decrease the stress is through demobilization. These are group information briefings that occur during rest breaks, at the end of a shift, or in the middle of an event as the situation requires. Critical incident defusing consists of formal sessions that occur within 8 hours of the event. They typically last 20 to 45 minutes and are where the event, experiences, and reactions are reviewed. A critical incident stress debriefing is a formal session run by trained counselors that occurs within 72 hours of the event and lasts for 2 to 3 hours.
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