{"id":2496,"date":"2023-05-30T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/uncategorized\/stars-delirium-prevention"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:47:16","slug":"stars-delirium-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/news\/stars-delirium-prevention","title":{"rendered":"Delirium prevention at STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Delirium prevention at STARS<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_2497\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2497\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2497 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/05\/daniel-num-stars-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/05\/daniel-num-stars-portrait-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/05\/daniel-num-stars-portrait-200x301.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/05\/daniel-num-stars-portrait.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/601;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel, Acting Nurse Unit Manager Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMS) STARS<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>March 15 was World Delirium Awareness Day, a day which seeks to increase the recognition, education, and prevention of delirium.<\/h4>\n<p>Delirium is a serious medical condition which can develop when people are acutely unwell or are undergoing medical treatment. Delirium causes changes to a person\u2019s usual mental functioning and its onset can be rapid (hours or days).<\/p>\n<p>People with delirium may become forgetful, confused or disoriented, experience mood swings, or see, hear or believe things that aren\u2019t real. Delirium is sometimes confused with other conditions such as depression or dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s World Delirium Awareness Day was \u2018Delirium is Everybody\u2019s Business\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The team from the geriatric evaluation and management unit at STARS provide specialised care to older people with chronic or complex conditions relating to ageing, disability, and cognitive problems. Recognising their patients have a higher risk of delirium, Daniel Carlyle, the unit\u2019s acting NUM, and his team have implemented delirium prevention strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimple strategies such as having room orientation boards with the date and time displayed and asking the patient\u2019s family to bring in familiar objects from home like a picture or a blanket can be really helpful,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also mimic routines similar to home or have a routine in place which includes encouraging normal sleep and wake cycles. Minimising room changes is also beneficial for our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keeping both mentally and physically active is recognised as playing an important role in preventing delirium. The unit\u2019s staff take time to play board games like Scrabble with the patients as activities like these keep the patients mentally alert and encourage social interaction.<\/p>\n<p>STARS\u2019s wonderful building design incorporating outside balconies is also used to its full advantage, with plant pots providing an opportunity for those patients who have a green thumb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We encourage the nurses to take the patients out to the balcony for fresh air, and if they are able, they can tend to the plants and help water them,&#8221; Daniel said.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15 was World Delirium Awareness Day, a day which seeks to increase the recognition, education, and prevention of delirium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}