Too stressed to think? A scoping review of the literature for healthcare educators utilising high acuity clinical scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The practise of paramedicine can be highly stressful particularly where urgent lifesaving decisions need to be made. Traditionally, educators have adopted the approach of placing students in simulated stressful situations as a way of learning to cope with these challenges. It is unclear from the literature whether traditional stress inoculation enhances or hinders learning. This scoping review aims to identify and examine both the peer-reviewed and grey literature reporting physiological stress responses to high-acuity scenarios in paramedicine and cognate healthcare disciplines.

Methods

Adhering strictly to JBI Evidence Synthesis Manual for conducting a scoping review, medical subject headings and areas, keywords and all other possible index terms were searched a

SUBMITTER: Betson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11391698 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature