❔ How should we handle #delirium treatment? ⭐ Major recent QI study focusing on #delirium treatment. 🆘 Patients with active #delirium ➡️ order set. Results: ⬇️ Length of stay ⬇️ Psychotropic medicine use 🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33150615/

HSE SSWHG is hiring for the position of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Respiratory – COPD Outreach, University Hospital Kerry. Closing date is: 23 Feb 2023 HR SSWHG Cork University Hospitals Bantry General Hospital -SSWHG Mallow General Hospital Ireland South Women & Infants Directorate Cork Kerry Community Healthcare University Hospital Kerry rezoomo.com/job/43136/

Frightening the amount of profit being made from placing older people in large institutions. So little investment being made in homecare services to support wishes of people to stay in their home. Profits will continue to grow when no other choice. businesspost.ie/property/deman…

Liam Chawke Consultant Respiratory Physician and Team proudly commenced the Bronchoscopy service at UHK this week! Well done all on the magnificent team effort 👏

Dear media, a 14 year old boy is not a young man. He is a child. A child will was set upon by a mob and severely beaten, requiring hospitalisation and left with with concussion, broken teeth and a shoe print on his forehead.

Congratulations to our #nchd case presentation poster winner Dr Conor Melly #tommccormackmedal University Hospital Kerry NDTP John Cooke

Congratulations to winner of oral presentation and the #tommccormackmedal for University Hospital Kerry #nchd case presentation Dr Natalie Krakoski with medal presented by Mr Tom McCormack himself NDTP John Cooke

Fantastic MDT engagement today for the launch of UHK delirium assessment and management booklet #deliriumiseveryonesbusiness #deliriumpathway University Hospital Kerry Mary Buckley Kay fitzmaurice @FITTUHK

Team effort for the Rehabilitation Point Prevalence Survey in UHK Trauma Care Ireland Keith Synnott damian mcgovern 🇮🇪 🇺🇦 Caitriona Begley University Hospital Kerry Barry Moynihan Mary Buckley

Great to be at the IGS conference showing our quality improvement work on keep patients active in hospital and preventing falls #IGS2023 Mary Buckley University Hospital Kerry

Is rehabilitation a solution to hospital discharge delays? ⁦The BMJ⁩ Improving rehabilitation is a potential cost effective strategy to support hospital discharges especially with an ageing population and increasing multi-morbidity bmj.com/content/383/bm…

Aphasia review for you

It can be shocking just how little attention is paid to mobility in hospital. Both at the start: no comment on how the person moves now. Silence on what they were like at baseline. How can we help people “get better” (or home) if we don’t know what better looks like for them?

Memento & the NDTP Post Graduate Medical Education & Training Program SSWHG were proud to support the Tom Mc Cormack and Brian Waldron Clinical Case Competition on Wednesday afternoon in the University Hospital Kerry library. Congratulations to the winners. 👏

An incredibly brave woman, and her case raises a number of questions for for defence minister Micheál Martin - do we want men who beat women in our defence forces? Is that who we are to entrust our security to? Is that who is to represent us?

Today in UHK we filmed our patient information video entitled ‘move to improve’ this includes great advice from the MDT on staying active in hospital and a sneak preview of the exercise stations being launched on every ward University Hospital Kerry Mary Buckley GEMS_UHK

New ESC guidelines for hypertension also including clinical frailty scale -highlighting tailor made care♥️ European Society of Cardiology #ESCCongress #frailty #geriatricmedicine #cardiology

🎥 Introducing 'Move to Improve' at UHK! Staying active during your hospital stay can make a big difference in your recovery. Watch the video now: uhk.ie/move-to-improve The video features tips from the MDT on the benefits of staying active. #MoveToImprove

In line with Patient Safety Day theme this year, Skip the Dip is especially relevant to improve diagnosis of UTI in older people and reduce unnecessary antibiotic use. See antibioticprescribing.ie for more info HSE QPS #QIreland #patientsafety Eimear Brannigan 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧

“Is Israel intentionally attacking aid workers?We’ve compiled 14 incidents where humanitarians were attacked despite giving the IDF their coordinates and being clearly identified as civilians.” trib.al/VQlRfjO