Which health care worker should be referred to critical incident stress debriefing?
a. Nurse who works at an oncology clinic where patients receive chemotherapy
b. Case manager whose patients are seriously mentally ill and are being cared for at home
c. Health care employee who worked 8 hours at the information desk of an intensive care unit
d. Emergency medical technician (EMT) who treated victims of a car bombing at a department store
ANS: D
Although each of the individuals mentioned experiences job-related stress on a daily basis, the person most in need of critical incident stress debriefing is the EMT, who experienced an adventitious crisis event by responding to a bombing and provided care to victims of trauma.
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