Prebriefing: How are standards of Best Practice implemented? An experience from Argentina

Abstract

Introduction: Simulation Standards of Best Practice recommend starting the simulation-based experience or education (SBE) with a prebriefing. Not including it or doing it incompletely can undermine the safe learning environment.

Objective: the objective of this study is to describe the quality of prebriefing carried out during 2022 in a private not-for-profit university in Argentina, according to the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning Best Practice (INACSL).

Method: This is a descriptive, exploratory, and cross-sectional study. All complete records of EBS carried out within the framework of usual academic activities, from January 1 to December 31, 2022, were included.

Data was obtained from a secondary database, which included the prebriefing components suggested by the good practice standards. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis.

Results: Prebriefing of 177 EBS were analyzed. More than half included at least 9 of the 12 items suggested by international recommendations, which is why they presented a quality categorized as “high” and “intermediate”.

Conclusions: Although most of the prebriefing was of high quality, these results invite us to plan and develop support and continuous training programs for facilitators and instructors to promote the incorporation of those aspects that were not included 70% of the time.