Faculty of Health and Welfare Sciences, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
Nurs Open. 2021 Mar;8(2):844-849. doi: 10.1002/nop2.691. Epub 2020 Nov 20.
Delirium is a serious, acute medical condition which places a heavy burden on the patient, his or her family and healthcare professionals. There have been only a limited number of studies to explore nurses' experiences of delirium and how delirium is identified in community care. The research questions of the study are as follows: "How do community care nurses' experience delirium?" and "How is delirium identified?".
This study has been designed as an explorative and descriptive study.
A topic-based interview guide was developed containing questions associated with the Registered Nurses' experiences of their meetings with people with delirium and their identification of delirium.
Nurses working in the community care need to know more about delirium as they play a key role in treatment. Our results also show that the participants have difficulty in establishing whether a patient is suffering from acute confusion/delirium, depression or dementia.
谵妄是一种严重的急性医学病症，会给患者、其家属和医疗保健专业人员带来沉重负担。只有数量有限的研究探讨了护士对谵妄的体验，以及在社区护理中如何识别谵妄。本研究的研究问题如下：“社区护理护士如何体验谵妄？”和“如何识别谵妄？”。
本研究设计为探索性和描述性研究。
制定了一个基于主题的访谈指南，其中包含与注册护士与患有谵妄的人会面以及识别谵妄的经验相关的问题。
在社区护理中工作的护士需要更多地了解谵妄，因为他们在治疗中起着关键作用。我们的结果还表明，参与者难以确定患者是否患有急性意识混乱/谵妄、抑郁症或痴呆症。
