Tips for Preventing Delirium in Patients

Ensuring eyeglasses, hearing aids, listening amplifiers

Ambulating at least twice a day if possible

Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model (PLST)

<p>Tailored cognitive activities to individual's interests and mental status</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pain management, medication review, sleep enhancement, environmental normalization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infections, medications, surgery, and dehydration</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nurses can implement strategies like frequent reorientation, early mobilization, and promoting quality sleep.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using natural light, reducing noise levels, and promoting a normal sleep-wake cycle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging early ambulation and physical activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Engaging patients in cognitive activities, puzzles, and memory exercises</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Age greater than 65 years, severe illness or comorbidity burden, inadequate control of pain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regularly reorienting the patient to person, place, and time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Improving lighting in the patient's room and providing glasses or hearing aids when needed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging regular physical activity and walking</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Engaging the patient in puzzles, memory games, or meaningful conversations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social isolation, noise, overcrowding, lack of privacy, unfamiliar caregivers, and exposure to aggressive behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By promoting restful sleep, providing orientation cues, maintaining hydration, and ensuring proper nutrition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creating a calm and quiet environment, minimizing noise and distractions, providing soothing music, and using natural light</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By encouraging regular physical activity, promoting safe ambulation, and preventing falls</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive stimulation activities can help maintain cognitive function, prevent boredom, and reduce confusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physiological needs such as hunger or pain, mood, physical environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By modifying proximal factors that interfere with sleep, such as noise and frequent awakenings, to meet the need for rest and decrease agitation or aggression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Optimizing physical environment factors like light, noise, and temperature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By structuring daily living to maximize remaining abilities and support limitations, thus promoting movement and engagement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By maximizing abilities to make choices and engaging in shared decision making to the extent possible.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Metabolic encephalopathy, toxic psychosis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Early accurate assessment and identification</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensory enhancements can help prevent delirium by providing a more stimulating environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enhancing mobility can prevent delirium by promoting physical activity and reducing immobility-related risks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive stimulation can help prevent delirium by keeping the brain active and engaged.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Delirium onset is sudden and abrupt, whereas depression onset is recent and may relate to a life change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Delirium course is fluctuating, often worse at night, while depression course is fairly stable and may be worse in the morning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In delirium, consciousness is reduced, while in depression, consciousness is clear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In delirium, psychomotor activity can be increased, decreased, or mixed, while in depression, it is variable with agitation or retardation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Delirium duration ranges from hours to weeks, while depression duration is variable and may be chronic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In delirium, attention is disordered and fluctuates, while in depression, attention is most often not impaired.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In delirium, orientation is usually impaired, while in depression, orientation is usually normal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In delirium, speech is often incoherent, slow, or rapid; may repeat phrases, while in depression, speech may be slow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In delirium, affect is variable and may look disturbed or frightened, while in depression, affect may be flat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dementia onset is insidious, slow, over years, and often unrecognized until deficits are obvious.</p> Signup and view all the answers