Component | Description | Refer to |
Nurse-focused components | ||
Educational modules | 4 online educational modules:
Followed up with weekly email reminders and demonstration of modules | |
Visual reminders | Validated tools including the CPOT, RASS and CAM-ICU cue cards by bedside | Online supplemental materials 1 |
Family-focused components | ||
Interviews | Volunteer (undergraduate students) conducted in-person interviews with family members of newly admitted patients within 48–72 hours of admission Intended to empower family members to participate in PAD care by providing information on baseline cognitive function, mobility and use of visual and hearing aids | Online supplemental materials 2 |
Educational pamphlet | Provided in waiting rooms to educate family members regarding delirium | Online supplemental materials 3 |
Educational video | Video on dedicated computer on delirium (licensed from Osmosis.org) | |
Physician-focused component | ||
Multidisciplinary round script | Script to remind intensivists to order target RASS Score, to discuss PAD assessment and treatment and to encourage nurses to achieve adequate pain control and light sedation | Online supplemental materials 4 |
Multidisciplinary-focused component | ||
Poster | Reminder on the unit to assess and treat PAD | Online supplemental materials 5 |
CAM-ICU, Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU; CPOT, Critical Care Pain Observation Tool; ICU, intensive care unit; PAD, pain, agitation and delirium; RASS, Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale.