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Delirium education and post-anaesthetics care unit nurses' knowledge on recognising and managing delirium in older patients
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research , Vol.35(5), pp.995-1003
2023
PMID: 37014618
Abstract
Background: Postoperative delirium (POD) is a major complication following a surgical procedure. There is evidence that improving knowledge about POD could enhance POD care and patient outcomes.
Aim: The study aimed to evaluate whether the amount of delirium education among registered nurses working in post-anaesthetics care units (PACU) impacts on their self-reported confidence and competence in recognising and managing delirium as well as prior knowledge on factors that influence the risk of delirium onset for older people.
Method: The current study utilised an online survey on delirium care practice among registered nurses in PACUs. The survey consisted of 27 items. There were questions about confidence and competence in delirium care, knowledge about delirium risk factors, and ranked responses to two case scenario questions to evaluate the application of POD care. There were also demographic questions, including previous experience with delirium care education.
Results: A total of 336 responses were generated from registered nurses working in PACU. Our findings found substantial variability among the respondents about their delirium care education. The amount of delirium education did not influence the PACU registered nurses’ confidence or competence in delirium care. In addition, previous education did not have an impact on their knowledge about delirium risk factors.
Discussion and conclusion: These findings suggested that the quantity of prior education about delirium did not improve the confidence, competence, knowledge, or case scenario questions of PACU registered nurses. Thus, delirium care education needs to be transformed to ensure it has a positive effect on delirium care clinical practice by registered nurses in PACU.
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- Title
- Delirium education and post-anaesthetics care unit nurses' knowledge on recognising and managing delirium in older patients
- Authors
- Callum Ormonde - University of WollongongEzinne O Igwe (Corresponding Author) - University of WollongongJessica Nealon - University of WollongongPauline O'Shaughnessy - University of WollongongVictoria Traynor - Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
- Publication details
- Aging Clinical and Experimental Research , Vol.35(5), pp.995-1003
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1007/s40520-023-02390-2
- ISSN
- 1720-8319
- PMID
- 37014618
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Data Availability
- The authors declared data availability during submission. Due to ethics approval, there are restrictions and data sharing.
- Grant note
- This study was funded by the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) Clinical Translational Grant Scheme (2018).
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991154833602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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