title: Prevention and monitoring of delirium in older adults: an educational intervention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to conduct an educational intervention with the nursing team members of an intensive care unit (ICU), aiming to increase knowledge and to introduce improvements in their practices regarding prevention and monitoring of delirium in older patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  this is an action research, in which workshops were conducted with eleven nurses and a nursing technician from an ICU unit in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ten problems regarding nursing practices for prevention and monitoring of delirium were identified. Educational, practical, technical, and managerial actions were planned, involving cross-sector connections for planning ways to solve these problems. The groups reported significant changes in the practices, with the implementation of drug-free measures for preventing and managing the situation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the educational intervention contributed to improve the nursing practices in the ICU unit studied, and it also favored the development of critical thinking about the problems mentioned, thus enabling permanent review of offered treatments.
authors: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Salvador -BA, Brasil.
authors: Tássia Nery
authors: TN
authors: Faustino
authors: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Salvador -BA, Brasil.
authors: Larissa Chaves
authors: LC
authors: Pedreira
authors: Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Curso Bacharelado em Enfermagem. Salvador-BA, Brasil.
authors: Yasmin Seixas de
authors: YS
authors: Freitas
authors: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Salvador -BA, Brasil.
authors: Rosana Maria de Oliveira
authors: RM
authors: Silva
authors: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Salvador -BA, Brasil.
authors: Juliana Bezerra do
authors: JB
authors: Amaral
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003693:Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009746:Nursing, Team