This course provides an overview of delirium and explains why we need to know about it to help raise awareness. It is aimed at those living with mental health issues and those who live with or look after them, members of the public and staff.
This course will take approximately 60 to 90 minutes to complete, but this timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the reflective questions. You do not need to complete the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course it will remember where you got up to.
This course was produced in collaboration with Dr Mani Santhana Krishnan FRCPsych. Dr Krishnan is a Consultant in Old Age, Liaison Psychiatry, Associate Clinical Director and Academic Secretary of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry. He has been actively championing delirium prevention. He started the hashtags ‘icanpreventDELIRIUM’ and ‘DeliriumReady’ and these now have global recognition. Dr Krishnan and his team have won several national and regional awards. In 2016 his team won the Psychiatry Team of the Year at the national Royal College awards ceremony. He himself received the Inspirational Leader of the Year award in 2017 from North East Leadership Academy. His Delirium Education work was highly commended at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) awards 2017.