Debriefing is a vital function of any sensitive simulation and will occur after each psychiatric scenario, with everyone involved. This facilitates a free flow of observations involving staff, trainers, faculty, and actors. Debriefing allows for making discoveries about inpatient crisis care, effectiveness of nursing care, reflections on personal performance, as well as validation of performance during stressful interactions with psychiatric patients. It also serves as a necessary time for shared decompression for all parties after the emotional escalation that mental health simulations can engender.