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
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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
➡️ 31500 Meals
➡️ 1300 volunteers
➡️ PPE Hubs for Carers
➡️ 1200 Business Grants paid
➡️ 35 groups funded
➡️ 300 staff doing other duties
➡️ Wellbeing Hubs-Key Workers
➡️ Kerbside Recycling restart 4 May
Old pics
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This is why I’m so proud to work for @CHSScotland - supporting ppl like David is why we exist. Our staff & volunteers are doing this across Scotland while we fight to maintain our income. If you can donate anything at all please do. David knows how valuable that contribution is.
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I would recommend giving blood. Did it last week. Best night out for ages. Saw real people and talked with them. Plus a Tunnocks caramel wafer #GiveBlood
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As the curve is flattening we are beginning to see more atypical symptoms of COVID-19 specifically in older adults we are seeing some atypical presentation of covid - presenting as #delirium without cough and fever. This is going to be the invisible giant impacting on recovery
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We will need more case studies and reviews on COVID delirium
