😨 Consequences of #delirium 🏥 Most delirium is present on admission; 1/3 of incident delirium can be prevented. Much of the delirium workload is about treatment. ⭐ Need to do more to limit severity & duration Recent general review: nature.com/articles/s4157…

🤷‍♀️ Inpatient monitoring for new #delirium is important ℹ️ The NEWS2 obs system used across UK #NHS includes 'new confusion' 📗 Study: NEWS2 'new confusion' had low sensitivity & high specificity for delirium Dx ➡️ More work needed 🔗 rcpjournals.org/content/clinme… Emma Vardy

March 13, 2024, marks World Delirium Awareness Day. This year's theme is 'Humanizing Delirium Care', emphasizing the power of compassion in the journey to recovery. Join us in raising awareness on #WDAD2024.

#WDAD2024 Making every contact count. As advocates for our patients and to keep families informed,we devised the following for our patients @#MRHP. "There is no such thing as a small act of kindness,every act creates a ripple with no logical end". Scott Adams.

😒😞😨 Distress is very common in patients with #delirium ⚠️ But it is usually not properly detected or assessed ➡️ Let's do better ➡️ Use a structured approach when engaging with patients with delirium #WDAD2024 @melanieryberg @weselymd

Finalists & winners who truly exemplify the wonderful contribution that our staff make to improving care and placing the patient at the centre of improvement. Thank you and to all entrants for their tireless work. #innovateMW Follow @HSEMidWest HSE Mid West Community Healthcare University Of Limerick Spark Innovation Programme

Happy #InternationalMidwivesDay to our amazing midwives and student midwives at University Maternity Hospital Limerick. We thank them for the fantastic work they do and the wonderful care they give to mothers and babies during their first special few days.🩵

Hospitals are not congested because of inappropriate attendances to ED. Access to rehabilitation - the reversal of functional decline that accompanies acute illness in older adults particularly - can get our patients out of hospital, back to their homes, back to themselves.

I want to publicly condemn the horrible racism that had to be experienced by volunteer canvassers this evening in Limerick. Solidarity with Suzzie O'Deniyi & her team. We are a wonderfully cultural diverse city something I value dearly. Diversity = Strength. #LimerickAgainstRacism

Many of our nursing friends have to wait 2yrs+ to bring their families to their new homes, relying on relatives to raise and care for their children. Would you do it? Would you be the backbone of a health system in a country 15hour flight away while your children grow up elsewhe

🗳️ Have you ever been bamboozled by Ireland’s electoral system, or how election counts work under the PR-STV system? Fear not: I can explain… 🔴 using 🟠 a 🟡 well-known 🟢 chocolate 🔵 sweet 🟣 snack 🟤. (Other tasty confections are available. #notspon.)

The contribution of functional cognition screening during acute illness hospitalization of older adults in predicting participation in daily life after discharge | BMC Geriatrics | Full Text bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

"We need to do more to ensure that the experiences on offer in TY are not exclusive or exclusionary. Charging a lone parent €1,500 for her daughter to go on a four-day skiing trip flies in the face of equality. We can, and should, do better" thejournal.ie/readme/transit…

Marese Damery, our Dying Well at Home Programme Manager, shares her end-of-life wishes. Have you thought of yours? For recourses on starting conversations about #endoflifecare planning, #dying and #grieving, visit 👉 hospicefoundation.ie/time-to-talk/ #TimeToTalk #TomorrowStartsToday

In early to support Sarah Lavin and the Irish team! #TeamIreland #athleticsireland #luimneachabú

#friday #inspiration #inspirationalquotes

#NSPO2024 HSE Mid West "Think global act local" Trying to get the synapses firing again before I go back to work. Very interesting panel discussions on patient safety and culture changes

Juanita Guidera Juanita Guidera @NationalQPS highlighting how communication remains a challenge in maintaining diagnostic safety- Communication to the patient and amongst healthcare team members is essential in improving sharing of diagnostic information National Patient Safety Office HSE Mid West

Great start to the day at the Documentation and litigation in nursing conference! Heard from States Claims Agency's Yvonne Fallon and Fiachra Breathnach BL so far. #wordofthedayiscontemperoneous #googlesmeaningferociously #DocumentationConf2025