NHS Registered Nurse Dementia champion and Delirium champion. All views expressed are my own
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined August 2017
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Would rather people just followed the rules and stay at home . – at Kilmarnock, Scotland
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1. Seek the views of the MDT. 2. Explain information to family 3. De-prescribing 4. Do not forget the 3 Ds depression delirium and dementia. 5. Always uphold the 4th D - Dignity – at Durham, England
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NB #delirium, reduced mobility, & falls can be presenting features of #COVID19.
Very important esp at the front door as often fever, dyspnoea, cough missing.
#frailty presentations common in older people with #COVID, even in absence of cardinal features.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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#Delirium & #frailty predict worse functional outcomes in #COVID19 patients at 4 weeks.
Important, because delirium affects likely >25% of older pts with COVID19.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Please show your support for people with dementia and their families during DAW 2020 by printing and decorating a forget me not flower and displaying it in your window 💕alzscot.org/sites/default/fi… @Rachelmacleod15 @macraevic @DreapoAndrea @DavidThomsonNHS
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Does your country have standards for #hipfracture care?
England & Ireland have Best Practice Tariffs (BPTs): meeting these means the hospital gets paid more.
From this useful review: doi.org/10.1016/j.bjae.2020.…
@BJAJournals
#delirium #perioperativemedicine
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Scotland’s Test, Trace, Isolate system - Test & Protect - goes live today. If you have symptoms of coronavirus - cough, fever, loss/change of taste/smell - book a test here nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and….
Or call @NHS24 on 0800 028 2816.
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Horrifying: patients given haloperidol for #delirium (mostly useless / harmful anyway) often have it prescribed as a discharge drug.
Have you seen this in your practice?
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3194…
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You never know what people are going through. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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For tomorrow's International Nurses Day 2020, we're asking everyone to ‘shine a light’ in their windows at 8.30pm to recognise the efforts of nurses & students nurses during #COVID19 & mark the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth 💛❤️
#IND2020 #YearoftheNurseandMidwife
ALT Image of lightbulb to mark shining a light on International Nurses Day 2020
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If you were out & about early this morning, you might have seen Janie & Keith Stewart litter-picking the Rigg Rd. 30 sacks and they’re still not done. We all need to look after our countryside ... we enjoy it more than ever just now. Take your litter home @EastAyrshire
Had a walk down memory lane tonight : River Ayr at Mauchline. Had soo many family days out there as a child @gem_mccall @BurnockEACH @karynnstevenson @kirstiejane69 @EAcommunityhosp @LynneOKane1 @step_count
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Eilidh here from Family Literacies, looking for something fun to do with your children, have a shot at the Fortunately/unfortunately game! 🧠📚
You don't even need any resources for this one! 😁👏
@EastAyrshire @EacEducation
@EACattainment @attainmentscot (EC)
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Thanks from all in @EAcommunityhosp for the kind donation from Sophie's 5 a day.... a lovely gesture from wonderfully generous young girl @BurnockEACH @MarchburnC @BAMConstruction @AJohnso10 @KayFerg49825229 @kirstiejane69 @LynneOKane1 @AshleyAnnx @MissSWSmith @LouiseCPreston
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Every number a person,every person a story.Our week @EastAyrshire
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