Publications by authors named "Matt Birch"
Background: Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome characterised by an acute state of confusion, with a substantial impact on medical inpatients. Despite its growing recognition as a global healthcare concern, delirium remains underdiagnosed, partly due to a lack of awareness among healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to explore how healthcare professional students experience caring for individuals experiencing delirium, the influence of their current pre-registration healthcare education, and importance of interprofessional teamwork in their role.
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- Interprofessional education is essential for healthcare students to learn teamwork and improve patient care, but it's often underrepresented in curricula, leading to the study that engaged students from various health professions in creating a resource on delirium management.* -
- Two workshops were held with students from medical, nursing, pharmacy, and occupational therapy programs, involving activities like resource creation and discussions, with follow-up focus groups to assess experiences during the co-design process.* -
- Key outcomes included enhanced relationships among students, a deeper understanding of interprofessional collaboration, and boosted professional confidence, resulting in valuable peer learning and skill development in managing delirium.*
Background: Competence in delirium care begins with pre-registration education for health care professionals. Although a common complication for hospitalised patients, delirium is avoidable and reversible. Delirium requires early recognition in person-centred care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Delirium is a common symptom of acute illness which is potentially avoidable with early recognition and intervention. Despite being a growing concern globally, delirium remains underdiagnosed and poorly reported, with limited understanding of effective delirium education for undergraduate health profession students. Digital resources could be an effective approach to improving professional knowledge of delirium, but studies utilising these with more than one profession are limited, and no evidence-based, interdisciplinary, digital delirium education resources are reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Few studies have explored the potential educational value of immersive 360° video in continuing education. This study explored the potential value of immersive 360° video as an acceptable educational method in a continuing education module in nursing.
Method: A convergent parallel mixed methods design was adopted.
Background: The management of patients' holistic symptom needs are often complex and challenging. The education needs of undergraduate nursing students must be optimally addressed to have a significant positive impact on patient care. Mobile spaced learning has been recognised as a form of online education which can provide a novel approach to delivering effective evidence based healthcare education to undergraduate students.
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