Multidisciplinary
e-resource for healthcare professional students.
Section-by-Section
The resources has been divided into six sections and should take approximately 2 hours to complete. Why not view each of the sections below.
Multidisciplinary Delirium Care
Discover more about multidisciplinary delirium care.
Welcome
Welcome to this delirium e-resource for healthcare professional students. The objective of this resource is to provide students in healthcare professions, such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, social work, and dietetics, with comprehensive insights into delirium assessment, management, and prevention. Additionally, the resource will also highlight the significance of collaborative multidisciplinary teamwork in supporting people, and their care partners, who experience delirium.
Dr Gary Mitchell MBE
Watch the video below from Dr Gary Mitchell MBE providing a welcome and brief overview of the resource.
Prof Alice Coffey Introducing E-Resource
Watch Prof Alice Coffey’s introduction to the e-resource.
10 Things To Know About
Below are video presentations produced for an RTE 1 series that showcased the teams work.
Ageing Well
How will this resource help me?
This resource has been co-designed by healthcare professional students from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Limerick. The resource has been developed to support healthcare professional students to better support people and their care partners who experience delirium. We anticipate this e-resource will take you between 90-120 minutes to complete fully. The main areas you will learn about are as follows.
You will utilise evidence-based tools and collaborative teamwork to conduct comprehensive assessments across diverse healthcare settings.
You will implement evidence-based interventions and work together with others in the multidisciplinary team to deliver person-centred delirium management.
You will employ evidence-based preventive interventions to minimise the occurrence of delirium.
Please Note
This e-resource does not require learners to have prior knowledge, practice or experience of delirium.
How was this resource developed?
This e-resource was funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) Ireland as part of their North South Research Programme. Creating this e-resource involved several steps. First, our team conducted a thorough review of existing literature to understand what resources were already available and determine the best approach. Next, we interviewed healthcare professional students through focus groups to learn about their experiences with delirium and collaborating in delirium care. After that, we used a consensus approach, called the Delphi method, to gather input from professional experts and establish shared priorities for delirium care education before registration.
In the fourth step, we brought together all the insights from the first three steps and organised co-design workshops. These workshops included current healthcare professional students from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and the University of Limerick (UL). Finally, in the fifth step, we developed this resource, incorporating feedback and insights from every previous stage. This e-resource, led by current healthcare students, is evidence-based and stands out as the first of its kind in multidisciplinary delirium care education.
Prof Christine Brown Wilson
Prof Christine Brown Wilson talks about the co-design methodology.
Acknowledgements
This e-resource has been developed by Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Limerick. We would like to thank the HEA for their generous support of this project. We would also like to extend thanks to our project team listed below in alphabetical order.
Faizah Alami
University of Limerick
Zahra Alsaleh
Queen’s University Belfast
Adeola Akintonde
Queen’s University Belfast
Tara Anderson
Queen’s University Belfast
Heather Barry
Queen’s University Belfast
Matt Birch
Queen’s University Belfast
Pauline Boland
University of Limerick
Martha Brickland
Queen’s University Belfast
Caitriona Brody
University of Limerick
Christine Brown Wilson
Queen’s University Belfast
Alice Coffey
University of Limerick
Lana Cook
Queen’s University Belfast
Sean Coghlan
University of Limerick
Stephanie Craig
Queen’s University Belfast
Laura Creighton
Queen’s University Belfast
Emma Cunningham
Queen’s University Belfast
Geoffrey M. Curran
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Olivia Donnelly
Queen’s University Belfast
William Finnan
Queen’s University Belfast
Margaret Graham
University of Limerick
Elizabeth Henderson
Queen’s University Belfast
Nilab Istanakzai
University of Limerick
Taran Khangura
Queen’s University Belfast
Sinead Kirby
University of Limerick
Mardonio Malicdem
University of Limerick
Arlene McCurtin
University of Limerick
Glenn McDowell
Queen’s University Belfast
James McMahon
Queen’s University Belfast
Gary Mitchell
Queen’s University Belfast
Jill Murphy
University of Limerick
Karen Mulvihill
Queen’s University Belfast
Tania Murray
Queen’s University Belfast
Margaret O’Connor
University of Limerick
Louise O’Hara
Queen’s University Belfast
Sophie O'Reilly
University of Limerick
Andy Pena
University of Limerick
Anna Pastrevica
University of Limerick
Patrick Stark
Queen’s University Belfast
Audrey Tierney
University of Limerick
Dympna Tuohy
University of Limerick
Riley Westwood
Queen’s University Belfast
Additional Thanks
A number of digital resources were sourced and used in the construction of this website. Therefore, special thanks go to Eoin Allen, Canva, Olmos Carlos, the Centre for Ageing Better, Dwayne Matthews, Pond 5, and Unsplash.
Project Developed In Association With
North South Research Programme
Queen’s University Belfast
University of Limerick