Ensure that policies, procedures and protocols are in place to enable clinicians to provide patients at risk of delirium with a set of preventive strategies and to conduct regular monitoring. Ensure processes are in place for clinicians to partner with patients and their family or carers when determining and implementing interventions. Ensure that staff are trained and competent in providing care to prevent and manage delirium. Identify and implement a format for prevention plans for high-risk patients.
Ensure that systems are in place for medication reconciliation to occur whenever patients are transferred between locations of care, especially when transferring out of ICU or before discharge. This is to reduce the inappropriate continuation of short-term medicines.
Ensure that policies and procedures support environmental care strategies, such as reducing noise and avoiding ward moves wherever possible for patients at risk of delirium or with delirium.
Ensure that equipment and devices, such as call bells, signs, calendars and clocks, are available to help orientate patients to decrease the risk of, or effectively manage, delirium.