Delir kompakt: Delirmanagement bei akut verwirrten Menschen (PDF)

By Shibley Rahman
The practice manual helps nursing, health and therapy professions to deal with people with delirium in a needs-oriented manner. The Author • Sharpens practitioners’ awareness of the risk factors of developing or the signs of existing delirium • Shows how to reduce the risk of delirium and prevent developing delirium • Names direct care interventions for delirium prevention, such as teaching timers, reality orientation, aids supply, noise reduction and pain management, as well as promoting visits, hydration, continence, sleep and gentle care. • Explains helpful forms of communication with people with a (threatening) delirium • Describes health-promoting intervention in people with delirium regarding: breathing, exercise, nutrition, family cohesion, drug screening, risk of falling, immobility consequences and sleep. • Describes and justifies numerous pharmacological, non-pharmacological, environmental (light/noise), complementary (music) and comfort-related intervention. • Names patient-oriented treatment goals and criteria for evaluating treatment outcomes • Weighs patients’ experiences highly in treatment and helps people who have experienced delirium to process it. • Provides didactically well-structured text with learning objectives, patient information, definitions and case examples as well as additional info boxes. • Shows how delirium can be countered in the context of end-of-life care and how to mitigate this • Describes and analyzes how loved ones experience and process a family member’s delirium • Introduces the Basler Dementia and Delirium Management Program in detail • Introduces the concept of the acute geriatric DelirUnit unique in Europe.

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hogrefe AG (11 Dec. 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ German
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3456861605
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3456861609