Delirium workshops meet hurdle in Gippsland
Final year medical and nursing students based in Gippsland are able to meet one of their hurdle requirements in Traralgon rather than having to travel to Melbourne.
The School of Rural Health – Latrobe Valley runs three interprofessional delirium workshops throughout the year and has already facilitated two this year.
The workshop trains student doctors and nurses in classes together using didactic learning, case studies and opportunities to practice on a simulated patient who is simulating a delirious episode. The interprofessional approach is designed to teach students from different health professions to work together to improve the care of patients.
Each workshop runs for three hours with half the workshop spent in tutorial and half in simulation. Student groups comprise around three medical and seven nursing students, with four workshops conducted in a day.
The program is based on the PhD studies of Debra Kielgadie and developed by the Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery Professor Wendy Cross and Director of Geriatric Medicine at Eastern Health Professor Peteris Darzins.