Development and implementation of a student resourced service to provide Engagement Intervention to vulnerable patients at risk of hospital acquired complications. Furthermore, this project allows...
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Frailty screening can help identify older people with multiple interacting medical and social problems which create a vulnerability for poor outcomes. This screening identifies people who will...
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EAT WALK ENGAGE™ is a multi-disciplinary program that improves care for older people in hospital, prevents delirium and promotes faster recovery. EAT WALK ENGAGE™ supports hospitals to be older-...
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Cognitive Impairment (CI) is often undetected in hospitals, with less than 20 per cent of cases properly recorded or coded. This results in poor patient outcomes, missed therapeutic opportunities...
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Delirium is a common, morbid and mortal condition and studies of hospital coding repeatedly demonstrate that delirium is likely under recognised. For numerous reasons, the diagnosis of delirium...
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Stage 1 - of the Cognitive Care Project (March 2016 – February 2017) focused on engaging key stakeholders to identify existing cognitive care practices and associated service gaps and/or knowledge...
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A new model of care Cognitive Impairment Rounding was proposed and subsequently implemented by the then Acting Nurse Unit Manager at the Logan Hospital. This involves one Enrolled Nurse (grade 3)...
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Older people with dementia and their carers are the population of interest. For the purpose of this study, the operational definitions of older people ‘with dementia’ will be inclusive of older...
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