Vanderbilt University School of Nursing will host The Gold Standard: Elevating Delirium & Age-friendly Health Care, an educational institute that will bring together health care professionals, educators, researchers and administrators to Nashville from around the globe on June 26-27. The comprehensive two-day institute is designed for health care professionals committed to advancing age-friendly care and delirium management.
“By equipping frontline professionals with knowledge on how to apply age-friendly care to patients experiencing delirium, our workshop serves as a catalyst for the swift and effective application of research findings to enhance patient care quality, safety and value,” said VUSN Assistant Professor Leanne Boehm, PhD, FCCM, FAAN, one of the institute’s originators. “This synergy of quality improvement and implementation science content accelerates the translation of research into practice, optimizing patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency.”
Participants will leave the institute with the skills necessary to spearhead delirium-related quality improvement projects and implement evidence-based practices within their clinical settings. The program will cover the role of QI and IS in delirium and age-friendly care, project implementation and storytelling, and a consolidated framework for implementation research and an overview of implementation strategies. Through workgroups, didactic and simulation activities, participants will learn core concepts of an age-friendly health system and delirium quality improvement.
Presenters for the institute include Boehm and Victoria Traynor, PhD, professor of healthy ageing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Boehm’s research aims to eliminate delirium, oversedation and immobilization in intensive care, and to maximize the quality of survivorship for patients and family members following critical illness. She has worked extensively on reducing the prevalence of ICU delirium and post-intensive care syndrome through implementation of the ABCDEF bundle, ICU recovery clinics and ICU peer support programs. Her current research is evaluating the efficacy of telehealth ICU recovery care services and implementation of digital interventions to enhance family engagement and empowerment in the ICU.
Traynor is the founding director of Aged and Dementia Health Education Research, a center for interdisciplinary researchers generating evidence in gerontological studies. The aim of ADHERe’s research is to contribute to the transformation of the lives of older people and family carers using the evidence-based resources they produce from their research studies. Their research adopts knowledge translation strategies and includes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
The Gold Standard: Elevating Delirium & Age-Friendly Health Care is part of a larger initiative by Vanderbilt School of Nursing to offer a dynamic and collaborative platform for participants to engage in cutting-edge discussions, innovative learning experiences and professional development opportunities. Vanderbilt institutes foster an environment of interdisciplinary learning, where participants can explore the latest trends, research and best practices, not only in nursing, but a variety of healthcare topics.
“These institutes create a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment where health care professionals can come together, network, learn from each other and workshop to improve practice, professional development and patient care,” said Lisa Hartman, director of the Office of Professional Development, who oversees the institutes and other professional development initiatives for the school.
Cost for the institute is $499, and includes registration, breakfasts and lunches. The deadline to apply is June 15. For more information about the institute, click here. To register, click here.