Delirium management in nursing care: recognising delirium, assessing it with the 4AT and CAM, preventing it and accompanying people safely – in line with the current S3 guideline.
Online self-study course for nurses in hospitals (surgery, intensive care, geriatrics) and in residential and community-based care of older people, as well as hospital social service professionals – 8 modules, approx. 7 hours, at your own pace, with confirmation of participation after working through all modules. References in APA 7, legal position as of September 2026.
The modules:
- Understanding delirium: definition, presentations and differentiation
- Risk factors and triggers: who is at risk?
- Delirium screening in practice: 4AT, CAM and CAM-ICU
- Delirium prevention: multicomponent measures in everyday nursing care
- Care during acute delirium: accompanying, protecting, communicating
- Legal framework: consent, patient will and freedom-restricting measures (FEM)
- Special situations: dementia, intensive care, surgery and care homes
- Relatives, discharge and quality in delirium management
📘 Further reading on the topic: Recognising and preventing delirium in nursing care
Self-study without supervision, assignments or assessment of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.