Massachusetts Intensive Care Unit Nurses From Multiple Hospitals Develop a Collaborative to Improve Delirium Assessment Accuracy.

Background And Relevance: Early recognition of delirium mobilizes nurses to intervene in a timely manner to minimize cognitive, physical, and mental health burdens. The life-altering challenges of unrecognized delirium in intensive care unit (ICU) patients motivated a group of Massachusetts ICU nurse leaders to form a collaborative and improve delirium screening accuracy in 4 area hospitals.

Local Problem: Baseline audits confirmed a lack of delirium screening accuracy across multiple institutions.