Article # 7 November 2025
Critical Event Debriefing: Impacts on Clinical Practice and Implication for Oncology Nurses February 2024 • Volume 28, number 1, pages 33 - 41 • DOI: 10.1188/24.CJON.33- 4 1 Molly Joyce, and Joanne Itano Background: The complexity of caring for patients with cancer has a direct impact on oncology nurses. When a patient with cancer experiences a critical health event, oncology nurses may have concerns about their ability to provide high-quality care for patients in the current healthcare environment. These concerns can negatively affect nurses’ emotional well-being and lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. Objectives: This article aims to examine critical event debriefing and identify ways oncology nurses can implement a critical event debriefing framework into their...