Evidence of debriefing in clinical supervision for nursing practice: Project

Background Debriefing, as a structured reflection strategy in clinical supervision, plays a fundamental role in nurses training and development, allowing improvement of care practice. Objective Map the available evidence on the impact of debriefing on clinical supervision for nursing practice. Inclusion Criteria. Quantitative, qualitative or mixed studies will be considered, as well as systematic reviews and gray literature. The review will include studies on Debriefing associated with the Clinical Supervision process of nurses, students or peers, in a clinical context. Methodology A scoping review will be conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. The search will be conducted in electronic databases, with open access, PUBMED, and restricted access, MEDLINE Complete, CINAHL Complete, Nursing & Allied Health Collection, Cochrane Plus Collection and MedicLatina, via the EBSCOhost search engine, which will aim to locate published and unpublished studies in any language. No time, geographic or cultural limits will be considered in the search. The search strategy will be adapted to each database/repository in order to identify relevant studies. Study selection will begin with title and abstract analysis. Selected sudies full text will be analyzed by two independent reviewers who will proceed to data extraction using a specific and appropriate instrument. A third reviewer will analyze and decide on the conflicts found.