Delirium
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Course Overview
This Course is designed to update healthcare professionals on the syndrome of delirium in older patients. Delirium will be defined and explained, and nursing management will be discussed. Specific delirium screening tools will be presented in great details, allowing health professionals to better recognise the syndrome of delirium in older patients.
Topics include:
- What is delirium?
- Epidemiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Delirium management
Target audience
All health professionals who work with older adults who may have delirium.
Purpose
Update health professionals on the syndrome of delirium, ensuring the appropriate application of prevention, assessment and management strategies to improve outcomes of care.
Need
Delirium is an acute disorder of attention and cognition that affects as many as 50% of the older population (those aged 65 years or older). Delirium is common, serious, costly, under-recognised, and frequently results in institutionalisation and death.
Delirium has been likened to a cognitive superbug penetrating all healthcare environments, spreading across acute care, residential aged care and the community.
Delirium Guidelines indicate delirium is easier to prevent than to treat and that 30—40% of delirium cases are preventable. This Course examines delirium indicators and the subsequent poor outcomes, which justifies health professionals to ask, does my older patient have delirium?
Learning Outcomes
- Define delirium and its causes
- Identify and apply delirium assessment tools
- Employ recommended principles of delirium management
Disclosure
No conflict of interest exists for anyone in the position to control content for this activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medications or products have been used.
Educator
Judy Deimel
Judy Deimel is the inaugural SA Health, CALHN Neurology Memory Service Nurse Practitioner (NP), a role she has held since March 2017. Judy’s prior work has included Dementia Consultant with the national Severe Behaviour Response Team (SBRT) and Cognitive Health NP with the Northern Adelaide Nurse Practitioner Project. Her chief educator roles have been with CALHN Nurse Education of the cognitively impaired; Course Coordinator and Lecturer with the University of SA School of Nursing & Midwifery’s post graduate program and HammondCare Dementia Centre Dementia Consultant. See Educator Profile
Gregory Turner
An interesting online course. Well presented and easily understood.
Tracy Halliburton
Very educational, easy to apply in the acute setting with easy assessment tools that take several seconds so can be applied every shift. This filled many gaps in my knowledge.
Jenna He
Informative and practical presentation
Esther Zoe Nunn
I had no idea delirium was so common!
Louise Murray
Great resource
Winnie Wang
Good refresher
Rod Giles
An excellent course to do,as i work in the aged care sector and is quite a common condition.
Chunling Yang
informative and applicable
Wendy Somers
Excellent presentation. Very informative
Carmen Houston
great .. informative and engaging