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EMPOWER™ Debrief
Introduction
Welcome to the debrief portion of your simulated experience. Each letter of EMPOWER™ is a step to
critically analyze your decisions and perceptions from the simulation. The purpose of the debrief process
is to empower you with the opportunity to reflect on your learning, clarify your misconceptions and
gaps, consider new viewpoints, determine applications to your practice and summarize new knowledge,
skills and attitudes related to this simulated experience.
Throughout this activity, you will use your individualized performance summary report to guide your
reflective analysis. Remember, this is a safe session for you to examine your thought process to
maximize your learning.
EMPOWER™ Debrief Competencies
Apply the self-led EMPOWER™ Debrief process to reflect on your simulated experience by:
• Exploring discoveries, challenges, and viewpoints
• Interpreting post simulation individualized performance summary report
• Correcting misconceptions with evidence-based practice standards
• Creating meaningful practice examples to integrate new knowledge into practice
• Evaluating the attainment of the simulation and debrief competencies
• Reflecting on decisions to improve future practice
Use the boxes provided below each prompt to reflect and analyze your virtual simulation experience.
E – EXPLORE
To begin, let’s EXPLORE your first impressions from the learning experience. Your discoveries include
new knowledge, roles, self-confidence, or skill refinement gained from the experience. Take one minute
and write down your first reactions:
My first impressions were that this taught me to prioritize my patients while learning their needed
interventions at the same time. I felt very confident in my responses and the choices that I made for where to
prioritize the patients in either ICU or med-surg.
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Describe what went well. What was difficult? Which concepts need be clarified? Expand on one of
your challenges, sharing difficulties with decision making or judgment related to role knowledge,
content, technology, or immersion (your ability to suspend reality):
I did very well on choosing which department each patient belonged in and on choosing which priority that
the interventions need to be done in. I did not do very well in choosing the interventions, I would always mix one
up. I think I needed clarification on which ones would treat the patients’ needs. I need to work on reviewing the
interventions.
Analyzing your challenges helps to explore methods to improve your performance, decision making, and
judgment. Recall one of your initial reactions and examine how your viewpoints impacted your decision
making with relevant issues, assumptions, or practice experiences:
I almost placed the DVT patient on the med-surg unit because I was overthinking and read too much into the
mentioning of no PE. My viewpoint was that if there is no PE then it may not be that bad. I then came to think of it
more and realized that the DVT could later become a PE , which I knew. I was just using my initial reactions first
which would have been wrong.
Provide rich details for one of your experiences, such as new knowledge, roles, self-confidence, or skill
refinement. Examine how your viewpoints impacted your decision making with relevant issues,
assumptions, or practice experiences:
My viewpoints that I learned from med-surg thus far have helped me. When I got the patients, I was able to
recognize their symptoms and think of what they had before the report told me. Then I thought of which patient
will need to be seen first. This thinking that I developed helped me to prioritize them properly. It really boosted my
confidence with each patient.
M – MISCONCEPTIONS
Review your individualized performance summary report and look for MISCONCEPTIONS or incorrect
responses. Do you see a common subject area where your performance was lower?
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EMPOWER™ Debrief
Introduction
Welcome to the debrief portion of your simulated experience. Each letter of EMPOWER™ is a step to
critically analyze your decisions and perceptions from the simulation. The purpose of the debrief process
is to empower you with the opportunity to reflect on your learning, clarify your misconceptions and
gaps, consider new viewpoints, determine applications to your practice and summarize new knowledge,
skills and attitudes related to this simulated experience.
Throughout this activity, you will use your individualized performance summary report to guide your
reflective analysis. Remember, this is a safe session for you to examine your thought process to
maximize your learning.
EMPOWER™ Debrief Competencies
Apply the self-led EMPOWER™ Debrief process to reflect on your simulated experience by:
• Exploring discoveries, challenges, and viewpoints
• Interpreting post simulation individualized performance summary report
• Correcting misconceptions with evidence-based practice standards
• Creating meaningful practice examples to integrate new knowledge into practice
• Evaluating the attainment of the simulation and debrief competencies
• Reflecting on decisions to improve future practice
Use the boxes provided below each prompt to reflect and analyze your virtual simulation experience.
E – EXPLORE
To begin, let’s EXPLORE your first impressions from the learning experience. Your discoveries include
new knowledge, roles, self-confidence, or skill refinement gained from the experience. Take one minute
and write down your first reactions:
My first impressions were that this taught me to prioritize my patients while learning their needed
interventions at the same time. I felt very confident in my responses and the choices that I made for where to
prioritize the patients in either ICU or med-surg.
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Describe what went well. What was difficult? Which concepts need be clarified? Expand on one of
your challenges, sharing difficulties with decision making or judgment related to role knowledge,
content, technology, or immersion (your ability to suspend reality):
I did very well on choosing which department each patient belonged in and on choosing which priority that
the interventions need to be done in. I did not do very well in choosing the interventions, I would always mix one
up. I think I needed clarification on which ones would treat the patients’ needs. I need to work on reviewing the
interventions.
Analyzing your challenges helps to explore methods to improve your performance, decision making, and
judgment. Recall one of your initial reactions and examine how your viewpoints impacted your decision
making with relevant issues, assumptions, or practice experiences:
I almost placed the DVT patient on the med-surg unit because I was overthinking and read too much into the
mentioning of no PE. My viewpoint was that if there is no PE then it may not be that bad. I then came to think of it
more and realized that the DVT could later become a PE , which I knew. I was just using my initial reactions first
which would have been wrong.
Provide rich details for one of your experiences, such as new knowledge, roles, self-confidence, or skill
refinement. Examine how your viewpoints impacted your decision making with relevant issues,
assumptions, or practice experiences:
My viewpoints that I learned from med-surg thus far have helped me. When I got the patients, I was able to
recognize their symptoms and think of what they had before the report told me. Then I thought of which patient
will need to be seen first. This thinking that I developed helped me to prioritize them properly. It really boosted my
confidence with each patient.
M – MISCONCEPTIONS
Review your individualized performance summary report and look for MISCONCEPTIONS or incorrect
responses. Do you see a common subject area where your performance was lower?
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