Multidisciplinary
e-resource for healthcare professional students.

How do you solve a problem like delirium?

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. 

Overview of Delirium

Take a look at our overview of delirium.

Assessment of Delirium

Find out more about the assessment of delirium.

Management of Delirium

Delve into this section on the management of delirium.

Prevention of Delirium

Find out more about the prevention of delirium.

Multidisciplinary Delirium Care

Discover more about multidisciplinary delirium care.

Additional Resources

Take some time and review some additional materials.

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.​

Student Volunteers Taking Part In Delirium E-Resource
Student Volunteers Taking Part In Delirium E-Resource

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

2 Videos

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.

Delirium Project Team

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

Faizah Alami

University of Limerick

Zahra Hashim A Alsaleh

Zahra Alsaleh

Queen’s University Belfast

Adeola Akintonde

Queen’s University Belfast

Tara Anderson

Tara Anderson

Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Heather Barry

Heather Barry

Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Matt Birch Image

Matt Birch

Queen’s University Belfast

Pauline Boland

University of Limerick

Martha Brickland

Martha Brickland

Queen’s University Belfast

Caitriona Brody

Caitriona Brody

University of Limerick

Prof Christine Brown Wilson

Christine Brown Wilson

Queen’s University Belfast

Alice Coffey ​

Alice Coffey

University of Limerick

Lana Cook ​

Lana Cook

Queen’s University Belfast

Sean Coghlan

Sean Coghlan

University of Limerick

Stephanie Craig

Queen’s University Belfast

Laura Creighton

Laura Creighton

Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Emma Cunningham

Emma Cunningham

Queen’s University Belfast

Geoffrey M. Curran

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Olivia Donnelly

Olivia Donnelly

Queen’s University Belfast

William Finnan

Queen’s University Belfast

Margaret Graham

Margaret Graham

University of Limerick

Elizabeth Henderson

Elizabeth Henderson

Queen’s University Belfast

Nilab Istanakzai

Nilab Istanakzai

University of Limerick

Taran Khangura

Queen’s University Belfast

Sinead Kirby

University of Limerick

Mardonio Malicdem

Mardonio Malicdem

University of Limerick

Arlene McCurtin

University of Limerick

Glenn McDowell

Glenn McDowell

Queen’s University Belfast

James McMahon

James McMahon

Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Gary Mitchell

Gary Mitchell

Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Jill Murphy

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 ​

Louise O’Hara

Queen’s University Belfast

Sophie O'Reilly

Sophie O'Reilly

University of Limerick

Andy Pena

Andy Pena

University of Limerick

Anna Pastrevica

University of Limerick

Patrick Stark ​

Patrick Stark

Queen’s University Belfast

Audrey Tierney

University of Limerick

Dr Dympna Tuohy

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.

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