Feasibility of a two-part person-centred care initiative for people living with dementia in acute hospitals: A mixed methods study.

Background: The personal profile offers a potentially useful tool to support person-centred care of people living with dementia in hospital. To date, how profiles can be implemented into nurses' work practices is not established.

Objectives: The aim is to establish the feasibility of a Person-Centred Care package, including a personal profile and staff education program to enhance implementation.

Education for delirium prevention: Knowing, meaning and doing.

Hospital-acquired delirium is a common complication for older patients. Delirium prevention programs have been shown to reduce incident delirium and decrease length of stay; however, incorporating delirium prevention into nursing practice continues to be challenging. A three-element delirium prevention educational program was conducted with 42 nurses in a medical ward in a tertiary hospital in southeast Queensland.

Using a general theory of implementation to plan the introduction of delirium prevention for older people in hospital.

Aim: To develop an implementation plan for delirium prevention.

Background: The use of non-pharmacological interventions to prevent hospital-acquired delirium is well established but their implementation has been notoriously difficult to achieve. Systematic analysis of context as part of implementation planning is critical.