Delighted to be facilitating our 3rd HSE Community Healthcare East HSE Ireland National Frailty Education Programme (NFEP) with Claire Edel McDaid Cara_Webster & Edgar in Clonskeagh Hospital today. Great turnout and engagement as always. Next one soon in St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH)
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Another fantastic #CHO6NFEP Education Day. Hosted by Leopardstown Park Hospital. Brilliant spread the combating Frailty message. Delighted to have had JO'Keeffe Claire Sarah Cosgrave.Claire our OT & Eugene Physio as local experts. Deirdre Lang Leopardstown Park

“Everyone say Frailty!” 📸

The National Frailty Education Programme is back in CHO6🤩

Hosted today in Royal Hospital Donnybrook by the CHO6 Facilitators Group.

Huge thanks to our attendees, facilitators and guest speakers lilycogan & Emma Fox OT.

#💜NFEP Deirdre Lang HSE Ireland

Final steps of prep for tomorrows CHO6 NFEP Facilitators relaunch event in Royal Hospital Donnybrook

Deirdre Lang you know it’s true 😉

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Amazing keynote from @ProfOrtuno at todays Framing Frailty Event. Lots of clever visuals of concept of frailty but The Italian Job was my favourite 👌

#💜NFEP2023

Wholehearted congratulations to our nursing colleagues who received their Continuous Prefessional Development Certificates at this morning's ceremony hosted by the SVUH Nursing Education Department

Thank you for your commitment to delivering excellence in patient care 🙌

🚨BGS MEMBER ALERT🚨 The Society is delighted to announce that, following a vote by a record number of members, Jugdeep Dhesi will be its new President Elect. Dr Dhesi will take up the role from 11 November, supporting the next BGS President Adam Gordon bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

#delirium is present in 10% of older ED patients. It is an acute medical emergency, yet often goes unrecognized. This #JGEM article outlines common pitfalls in delirium screening and tips to improve identification of the high-risk condition #medtwitter

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Last week, the annual SVUH Nursing Awards took place. The recipients of all awards can be found below.

We would like to congratulate all recipients.

#svuh #nursingawards #InternationalNursesDay

A great opportunity to join our team as CNM2 in our SVUH transitional care unit based in Caritas, a wonderful team delivering the best in patient centred care - see stvincents.ie/careers for more. SVUH Nursing Directorates @OlderPersonsSVUH SVUH Occupational Therapy Dept Health and Social Care Professions SVUH

Happy World OT Day 21 to our wonderful colleagues SVUH Occupational Therapy Dept sarahmc nally St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) #Enabling #Evolving #Enhancing #OT #WFOT

Setting up a patient safety 'huddle' in St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) Caritas transitional care unit, to proactively identify patients at risk of deterioration Emma Nichola Boyle Claire Peter Lachman Dorothy Breen @RCPI_QI Royal College of Physicians of Ireland @OlderPersonsSVUH Health and Social Care Professions SVUH SVUH Nursing Directorates

#InternationalDayofOlderPersons we had a snack trolly round with a little difference in Caritas and in-service training by Leigh Pelow. Next week caritas will also take part in the Get up, Get dressed, Get moving 60 day challenge💪 OPNIG Health and Social Care Professions SVUH Claire

Today is #WorldPhysiotherapyDay - we have an amazing Physiotherapy team in SVUH who are part of the wider Health and Social Care Professions SVUH team providing excellent care & support to patients - we have a range of vacancies in our physiotherapy dept see stvincents.ie/careers for more info 👏👏

Great advice from physio Leigh Pelow and dietician Rachel about the importance of adequate protein intake and resistance exercises to help prevent sarcopenia #Caritas #musclematters Health and Social Care Professions SVUH @OlderPersonsSVUH

A feature of geriatric medicine is that we need to know A LOT about our patient, in order (often) to do LESS #DoLessButBetter

Delighted to inform you that The National Frailty Education Programme is avail on interim HSEland lms.hseland.ie
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Atrial fibrillation and oral anticoagulation in older adults: an update academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

'Why do we call it 'Risk Feeding' instead of 'Risk of Not Feeding'?'

Really enjoyed journal club this evening, thank you Irish Perioperative Medicine Society (IPOMS) and Pádraig Ó Scanaill
A reminder of the importance of objective assessments when discussing perioperative risk and then importantly asking - what proactive steps can we take once that risk is identified!