Delirium advocates Marnie and Marcia Phillips

One of the many wonderful delirium displays at RBWH

On 15 March, RBWH recognised World Delirium Awareness Day to drive awareness and education around the most common hospital acquired complication.

The theme for this year was “Delirium is everyone’s business”, which aimed to highlight that managing and preventing delirium requires the skills of the entire team.

The Eat Walk Engage team held a competition where teams were encouraged to create a delirium awareness display in their ward. The team were impressed by the efforts staff had gone to drive awareness of this important issue.

Graph outlining delirium prevalence at RBWH

Eat Walk Engage Clinical Lead Professor Alison Mudge judged 13 delirium displays through RBWH alongside consumers and passionate delirium advocates Marnie and Marcia Phillips.

“Our joint first prize went to wards 9AS and 7AN, who has carefully crafted messages that were very accessible to patients and families as well as staff,” Professor Mudge said.

“Honourable mentions for creativity go to 6AS’s artwork, 4C’s angel wings, ICU’s baked goods, as well as 8AN for including patient quotes that remind us how terrifying delirium can be.

“I encourage all RBWH staff to keep working together to recognise, prevent and care for delirium—it touches us all and we all have an important role to play.”